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Yay more retarded patent suits from Apple and Microsoft!!! I can't wait.
$750K/Patent. I'd say they overpaid.
If you took half of that and hired a good engineer full time to come up with stuff to patent, and use the other half to pay patent lawyers, you could get dozens of patents out of $750K.
$750K/Patent. I'd say they overpaid.
If you took half of that and hired a good engineer full time to come up with stuff to patent, and use the other half to pay patent lawyers, you could get dozens of patents out of $750K.
But the point is, you couldn't get THOSE patents in question.
Some of those patents are for LTE stuff, and will be crucial in the very near future.
That leaves HTC, MOTO, LG, Google, etc., on the outside looking in.
Yay more retarded patent suits from Apple and Microsoft!!! I can't wait.
Some of those patents are for LTE stuff, and will be crucial in the very near future.
That leaves HTC, MOTO, LG, Google, etc., on the outside looking in.
If I recall correctly, many of these patents mostly pertain to LTE and other wireless network technologies. RIM, Apple, and Sony probably wanted to get in on the action to avoid having to pay licensing fees since they all manufacture hardware. I'm not entirely too certain why Microsoft wanted to get involved, unless they too are planning on using those technologies in some of their future products.
Since it's a consortium, I imagine that it would be fairly difficult for any one member to use the patents to file a lawsuit against someone. It's more likely that they'll be used defensively by the various members. It's also unlikely that other companies will be sued for violation of these patents as they'll most likely be licensing them as the Nortel patents only comprise part of the total LTE patent pool.
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Btw, Google has been pretty generous and hasn't been very agressive in patent litigation over their stuff
Microsoft already had a license to use these patents. They wanted to get involved to use it as leverage against Android manufacturers.
Out of a ~$500 phone, I wonder how much these patents will take up in licenses, per unit.
I think the real value will be in trying to burn Android to the ground with these patents...
I've read several comments from patent analysts that suggests this was a major loss for Google and is a bad sign for Android as we know it.
I wonder if Google is throwing their partners under the bus a little here. For the most part they haven't gotten the brunt of the litigation - their partners have, so they'd be buying patents to to protect Moto and co, which apparently they have little interest in doing.
I think the real value will be in trying to burn Android to the ground with these patents...
I've read several comments from patent analysts that suggests this was a major loss for Google and is a bad sign for Android as we know it.