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Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed
chill writes "A suit by Apple claiming that Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google, is seeking unreasonably high license fees for the use of patents on wireless technology has been thrown out by a judge in Madison, Wisconsin. Last week, Apple told the court it would pay up to $1 per device for a license to Motorola patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Motorola Mobility was arguing for a royalty payment of 2.25 percent on each device."
From the article: "'At the final pretrial conference, I asked Apple to explain why it believed the court should determine a FRAND rate even though the rate may not resolve the parties' licensing or infringement disputes,' Crabb wrote in an order on Friday. 'I questioned whether it was appropriate for a court to undertake the complex task of determining a FRAND rate if the end result would be simply a suggestion that could be used later as a bargaining chip between the parties.'"
Apple, to Court: Please remove the competition for us.
Court:Not possible; compete in the market on merit
Apple: But we are Apple, we need protection.
Court: Fuck off, and don't come back.
I do not understand why the same company which sued others over some lousy rounded corners refuses to pay royalties over others' patents?
Why is this hard to understand? Apple is an American company, and that makes it the best in the World, without any question. Like all Americans and American companies, it needs to be protected from the jihadists............. er competition; else there will be thermo-nuclear warfare and the infidels must be destroyed. Every patriotic judge has a duty to protect Apple, the great American company.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
No, Motorola wanted a very much inflated rate due to Apple's deep pockets and the bad blood between them. On non-FRAND patents they are FREE do this. They are not free to charge Apple whatever they want. Motorola wanted more then 10x the going rate for the FRAND patents.
Wait, and wasn't Apple wanting something like $30/phone from Samsung for rounded corners, the bounce back patents, and a couple other small ones???
$1 is laughable when compared to the importance of the phone.
Yes, but a dollar figure sets a minimum bar for the cost of the device. If 100 companies when after Apple, all claiming 2.5% of the cost of the device, the device would have to cost at least 2.5 times what it costs. Percentages are an impossible and unfounded way to demand royalties from another group.
... nothing else.
What happened to apple.slashdot.org technology stories? There are plenty of news stories out there. They've only freaking revamped two thirds of their product lineup in the last 6 weeks, for goodness sake. Yet all Slashdot (read: Fandroid Central) can post is the stories involving lawsuits, it's disgusting.
Tragically, the Fanboi site macrumors is nowadays providing more unbiased coverage of Apple than is the declining Slashdot. Maybe if Taco was still around...