Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 5, 2012 @04:36AM from the not-that-he's-complaining dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt opened up to The Wall Street Journal in a Dec. 4 interview. Among the topics covered: the status of his company's ongoing patent war with Apple, as well as its attempts to make the Android mobile operating system more of a revenue giant. In Schmidt's mind, startups have the most to lose in the current patent wars: 'There's a young [Android co-founder] Andy Rubin trying to form a new version of Danger [the smartphone company Mr. Rubin co-founded before Android]. How is he or she going to be able to get the patent coverage necessary to offer version one of their product? That's the real consequence of this.'"

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easy to license most of the patents by alen · 2012-12-05 04:47 · Score: 0, Troll

most of the patents in a smartphone are Standards Essential and fairly easy and cheap to license. a few pennies per device per patent owner.
not like you have to spend years in negotiations for tens of thousands of patents
most of these patent articles are just FUD and click bait