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Motorola Scores Patent Wins Over Microsoft, Apple
tlhIngan writes "This week is Motorola's lucky week; they've won twice in two separate patent suits. First, an ITC judge has ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 has violated 4 of 5 patents related to h.264. This is just a preliminary ruling (PDF) and both Microsoft and Motorola will face an ITC panel later this year. In the other case, the ITC judge has ruled Apple violates a 3G patent, one that a German court ruled that Apple didn't violate earlier this year. "
How can anyone hope to abide by copyright rules when even the courts can't sort out the mess!
Because as it turns out, German and American courts abide by different laws.
Maybe Microsoft and Apple should not have started the war by suing Android manufacturers.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Today Iridium is a healthy business with nearly half a million subscribers. Motorola may have got that one wrong, but not very far wrong. You know who really deserves to crater as a company for bad management? Microsoft. Kept going only by illegal monopoly control of PC manufacturers and evil software lock-in of the kind that got IBM sued nearly into oblivion in the eighties.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Microsoft shaking down Android manufacturers with its most probably bogus software patents says that you are incorrect about Microsoft improving at all.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.