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Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents
An anonymous reader writes "Apple and Samsung couldn't agree on a patent cross-license even though their CEOs met recently. What could be the reason (or one of the reasons) is that Apple is asking for obscenely high patent royalties. At the March 31 trial an Apple-hired expert will present to a California jury (already the third jury trial in this dispute) a damages claim of $40 per device (phone or tablet) for just a handful of software patents. The patents are related to, but don't cover all aspects and elements of, functionalities like slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, data synchronization, unified search and the famous tap-on-phone-number-to-dial feature. Google says there are 250,000 patentable inventions in a smartphone. On average, Apple wants $8 per patent per device. That would add a patent licensing bill of $2 million to each gadget. So Apple and Samsung will be back to court again later this month."
Because clearly Google & Samsung are upstanding companies who NEVER sue ANYONE, EVER for patent license fees....
If you believe that, then you should stop burying your head in your own ass... clearly lack of oxygen is inhibiting common sense.
So someone "inevitably" coming up with an idea means that it's not patentable? What? Where do you people get this shit from?
The problem with you fucks is that you like to think everything is obvious and trivial to execute but next to none of you bitches have ever invented a single thing in your lives.
I'm seriously waiting for you fucks to start revolutionizing the world like you claim that anyone could. Hell, I'd settle for one of you to put out a professional-quality album and let everyone download it for free. After all, it's just a copy, it's not costing you anything.