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ITC Judge Calls For US Xbox Import Ban

Posted by Soulskill on from the can't-you-boys-just-play-nice dept.

symbolset writes "In the long running dispute between Motorola and Microsoft, Judge David Shaw of the ITC recommended Monday an import ban on Xbox 360 S consoles, as they are found to infringe Motorola's patents (PDF). The judge also ordered Microsoft post a bond of 7 percent of the retail price of all unsold U.S. Xbox inventory. The decision will go to the ITC's board of commissioners, who will either uphold the recommendation or overturn it. 'Microsoft argued that Shaw's exclusion order does not serve the public interest because it would leave consumers of video game consoles with only two options to satisfy their needs: the Sony Playstation and the Nintendo Wii. Shaw rejected that argument, finding that the public interest in enforcing intellectual property rights outweighs any potential economic impact on video game console buyers.'" This follows news last week of Microsoft winning an import ban on Motorola's Android devices.

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  1. Ridiculous patent system by John+Sugs · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's ridiculous. Both this action by Motorola (Google) and the patent system in the U.S. Do you really think it's good ban all sales of XBOX360 because there is (supposedly) some video playback algorithm used in XBOX360 that Motorola has patents for?

    Microsoft's point is also perfectly good. Banning Xbox360 will do serious damage. If you want to play any current generation AAA games, then your choice is Sony's PS3. There is Wii, but it doesn't have the games. Google is evil. Ridiculous.

    1. Re:Ridiculous patent system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Just keep shilling, account-of-the-day man.

    2. Re:Ridiculous patent system by mozumder · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, all fundamental discoveries are made by government. Commercial entities have never invented anything.

      That is because profit is incompatible with social benefit.

      We need to encourage more funding from government through taxation of corporation. Let's give government more control over corporations.

    3. Re:Ridiculous patent system by cpu6502 · · Score: 0, Troll

      >>>The hard work (discovering new drug targets) is done by the NIH anyway.

      False.

      And profit motive is what makes a doctor or hospital desire to do a better job (and draw customers away from the competition). If the profit motive did not exist and they knew they would get paid anyway, even if they did a shitty job, then they'd be like government-employed teachers. Let me cue-up the video where a teacher was criticizing Mitt Romney as a bully, but then threatened to cane a student who called Obama a bully too. The student said, "They cannot take away your right to have your opinion." The teacher states, "OK, do I have to get my cane? As a social studies teacher, I cannot allow you to slander any President." The teacher cannot be fired, so she keeps getting paid even as she does a lousy job. http://www.infowars.com/teacher-yells-at-student-criminal-offense-to-criticize-obama/

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    4. Re:Ridiculous patent system by cpu6502 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Because trying to make a game work on a PC is an exercise in frustration. I quit PC gaming in the late 90s when I couldn't make several games install without getting errors (or else working but randomly crashing). It wasn't like the old days of the Atari or Commodore or Amiga gaming when the game *just worked* straight out of the box.

      Oh yes, I know, you'll say I should have upgraded to a better video card or better hardware. I did. I bought a PS2 and later a Gamecube which worked straight out of the box w/o Microsoft's broken OS/driver system. (And $200 for a console is a lot cheaper than paying $2000 for a new gaming PC every other year.)

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    5. Re:Ridiculous patent system by cpu6502 · · Score: -1, Troll

      >>>It's not like I've taken medical pharmacology classes where they explained exactly who is responsible for what part of the drug discovery process

      Yeah I'm sure the liberal professors really told you the truth (not). Just as they claim 100% socialism is the answer to all our problems (not). ANYWAY you could have cited some examples where only government provides us with new drugs..... but you didn't. So you did not prove your claim.

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  2. Re:There they go again by John+Sugs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you mean Google? Awkward...