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Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War
An anonymous reader writes "Reuters reports that Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit are settling all patent lawsuits over smartphone tech. The settlement 'does not include a cross license to their respective patents,' and the companies will work together for patent reform. According to Reuters, 'The two companies informed a federal appeals court in Washington that the cases should be dismissed, according to filings on Friday. However, the deal does not appear to apply to Apple's litigation against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, as no dismissal notices were filed in those cases. The most high-profile case between Apple and Motorola began in 2010. Motorola accused Apple of infringing several patents, including one essential to how cell phones operate on a 3G network, while Apple said Motorola violated its patents to certain smartphone features.'"
For another stupid patent beef. Let's burn more money because lawyers need yachts, right?
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Oh wait. We still have Microsoft and their proxies trying to prevent the future.
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not participating allows the hardware side of this patent war to continue. Apple is hardware/software so it seems uneven without Samsung joining
Moto's 3G and radio patents had real teeth. Heck, some of them might be actual, real, inventions....as opposed to the drivel that Apple's been flogging.
Now they won't sue each other, just everyone else. It seems like there is a big existing group here that is becoming harder and harder to launch new competition against (they will both sue you...). You basically can't make smart phones unless you are in the club, and they won't let you in. This is bad for the market place from a consumer perspective, and from the perspective of all other companies. They have formed a trust and we don't have Theodore Roosevelt around anymore to bust it.
As if thousands of patent lawyers suddenly cried out in terror.
Guess Apple didn't want to take another American company to court. It would lose the home-country advantage its trivial patents had against Samsung.
Moto's 3G and radio patents had real teeth.
We already knew from a previous court ruling that they were not worth a hill of beans.
The REAL reason the battle is finally over is because Jobs is gone, and Cook is not a "nuclear option" kind of guy. Cook just wants to chill and make billions of dollars per day or whatever. He's the ultimate supply chain nerd that probably hated dealing with legal crap all the time.
People keep taking about Jobs being gone being all bad. But they forget there are real silver linings like this patent settlement that probably would not happen if Jobs were still alive, since he took the copying issue personally.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I suspect it settled because you can't demand unreasonable royalties for SEPs & Moto figured that was where it was going.
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The Republicans will never allow this to happen. They love how their laws have ruined innovation in the US and have destroyed our tech industry. After all, if they didn't destroy us, what else would their kind have to whine about. I know my boss that is one of those CONservatives constantly celebrates stupid, wasteful patent lawsuits. Even the small company I work for has put seven businesses that employed (as a wild guess) more than four hundred people. Management here high-fived each other and had a BBW every time they put people out of work to starve. That is what their kind lives for.
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So, sort of like Germany and Great Britain after WW1, then huh?
It would hurt Monsanto, and with their agreement with that evil empire to help do whatever they can to help them shove their toxic genetically corrupted food down our throats, they will never allow the patent system to be weakened like this. Expect them to create several false flag operations to recreate the previous situation that helped the people that are sponsoring the Republicans.
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This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
The Republicans will never allow this to happen. They love how their laws have ruined innovation in the US
You misspelled "Democrat".
But really the word you should have used is "statist", which can be found in both Democrat and Republicn camps. The reason you keep voting for failure is that you've not discerned that candidates matter more than party.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I can smell your irrational hate and ignorance.
The REAL reason the battle is finally over is because Jobs is gone
Really THIS got modded insightful. Its down to the whims of CEOs. Jobs died October 5, 2011...get over it.
This case ended like all cases of its kind do. The money; PR; time; strength of their case..some expensive advisers weighed up the pros and cons and decided to call it a draw. the fact that "Judge Richard Posner dismissed it in 2012 shortly before trial, saying neither company had sufficient evidence to prove its case" kind of points in that direction.
Yeah ... the company making 80% of the money in the market an consistently selling more every year is "stating to feel the pocket bottoms".
Dumbdroids alwyas prove why Android fans are considered the dumbest in the world.
"Our lawsuit is saying, 'Google you f***ing ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."
Since Apple and Google settled, and Android is not destroyed, Steve Jobs failed.