To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee

An anonymous reader writes "Motorola feels that Apple is infringing on several FRAND patents that have to do with how every smartphone in existence connects to WiFi and cellular networks. Since Apple makes smartphones, and Google is looking to use their newly acquired Motorola as a weapon, the two companies are only a few days away from the courtroom. Apple has conceded that the Moto patents are valid by offering to pay Google/Moto $1 per device, but only going forward. Motorola wants 2.25% per device and for it to cover all Apple devices (back dated). If Motorola pursues the case and the court issues a per device rate that is higher than Apple's offer, Apple promises to pursue all possible appeals to avoid paying more than $1. Motorola could end this quickly, or watch as Apple drags this out for what could be years."

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Re:Apple was not "caught" doing anything

[andydread]

Haha you like to Florian. thats like conservatives linking to Fox News.

Re:At last an offer.

[hairyfeet]

You joke but can we ALL now accept that "Do No Evil" was nothing but "Think Different" tailored to geek culture? It was a marketing slogan and had as much bearing on reality as the Brawndo commercials in Idiocracy.

Here we see classic patent trolling with patents used as a weapon...NO different than how Apple and MSFT have done in the past...key words? NO different. Google is a megacorp, megacorps care only about the bottom line, period the end. If Google could triple their page views by having a "Save the titties!" campaign they would do so, its ALL marketing and doesn't have a damned thing to do with what goes on in house, no more than Apple is walking down the lines in China telling the workers building iPhones to think differently as they put them together.

As for TFA the final score will be the big three, Apple, Google, and MSFT, signing cross licensing agreements that make sure nobody comes through that doesn't pay their $699 license fee, so they'll get paid no matter who makes what, which seems to be all patents are ever used for anymore, trolling.