LOL...this dude and those who like his post are exactly the types of people who would screech patent troll if Apple was sued for what Apple is suing Qualcomm for.
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LOL...this dude and those who like his post are exactly the types of people who would screech patent troll if Apple was sued for what Apple is suing Qualcomm for.
You've just described the patent system, not patent trolls.
That’s not what the patent claims. It’s just a high level description created by commentators. Go read the patent claims, and then show us where there is prior art, before making such assertions.
You are basically just ignoring the accepted definition.
Maybe you mean something else?
I guess when you're out of ideas you just have to sue.
BTW 2nd Christmas in a row, no Apple stuff under the tree. Really wish Apple had stuff I'd like to buy or give. Just the same boring old stuff. How many watch bands and iPads can one use?
BTW 2nd Christmas in a row, no Apple stuff under the tree. Really wish Apple had stuff I'd like to buy or give. Just the same boring old stuff. How many watch bands and iPads can one use?
Nailed it!
My popcorn is ready for this ugly legal battle.
What about the Apple vs Samsung?
Qualcomm does not double dip. They spend billions helping to create and implement new mobile standards, producing over 3,000 patents a year.
Where do you think your 3G, 4G and soon 5G came from? Hint: not Apple, who profits hugely from having such technology available for their products.
Apple, divert your money to QA department, not to lawyers. Even though you have billions in cash, you still don't seem to have a QA department that's better than your lawyers!
I don’t buy this definition of patent troll. Patents are assets and can be bought, sold, traded or licensed as the owner sees fit.
A non-practicing entity (NPE) is the correct term for a company that owns patents but doesn’t manufacture anything. An NPE isn’t automatically a patent troll, though most patent trolls are NPE’s.
What defines a patent troll is how they behave. Filing frivolous lawsuits without merit, filing against end users of a product instead of the company making the product, trying to extort payments under threat of lawsuit, filing in the Eastern District of Texas, failing to negotiate before filing a lawsuit, not properly identifying which products infringe and how they specifically infringe (which leads to expensive discovery costs for the defendant), assigning patents to an entity to obscure who’s actually behind the lawsuit and so on.
A company that manufactures products could still do any of the above in regards to their patents.
Here you go again with your usual BS.
Apple profits hugely from iOS and their software services, from their vastly superior processors that are light years ahead of Samsung and Qualcomm, from their outstanding service/support, from the premium construction of their devices and many other small details.
Qualcomm is a minor contributor to the success of the iPhone, though they like to pretend they are a major reason. This allows them to justify what they feel they’re owed.
Apple didn't start this, but i sure hope they will end it. Qualcomm can make a dive for all i care, high tech personnel will always find a job.
Minor edit: "Hopefully justice will prevail."
In the end this is a bunch of companies fighting for ownership of ideas and concepts as much as it is implementation. As these drag on and suck resources from our judicial system that could be better used elsewhere we, the people, may get tired of it and force change.
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LOL...this dude and those who like his post are exactly the types of people who would screech patent troll if Apple was sued for what Apple is suing Qualcomm for.
You are probably right... but I think this has reached the "my daddy can beat up your daddy" stage, so both sides are going to throw whatever they can.
They will become Broadcom employees.
When 2 giants fight, some small guys always get hurt…
You are free to invent your own definitions if you wish, so long as you acknowledge that the definition you are using is not the definition everyone else in the world and industry uses.
The biggest issue with qualcomm is that the way they leverage their patents worth (tying the % to the total product price instead of a FRAND-like rate in which they get paid for their specific contribution, has led to us not having 3G and LTE baked into high-ticket items like laptops.
Qualcomm is not in any way entitles to the same % of profit off of a 256GB iPhone X as they are a 8GB burner on the shelf at best buy. Their contribution is the same, they should accept the 25-50 cents per device and stop extorting the middle and high end market, and honestly shutting off new markets altogether.
Qualcomm is not in any way entitles to the same % of profit off of a 256GB iPhone X as they are a 8GB burner on the shelf at best buy. Their contribution is the same, they should accept the 25-50 cents per device and stop extorting the middle and high end market, and honestly shutting off new markets altogether.
That's some BS obvious counter patents. Makes sense now why Apple patent trolls everything obvious under the sky. If Apple entered the auto market they'd patent something obvious like "a platform on wheels" and sue other established competitors.
Sounds like your spewing the bs. You can’t even post without praising Apple and insulting Samsung.
Clearly *any* product with Qualcomm cellular modems in it will be *wildly* profitable / successful then ...
[doublepost=1511974559][/doublepost]https://seekingalpha.com/article/86862-the-ripple-effect-of-the-qualcomm-nokia-settlement
The move to Qualcomm’s chipsets certainly worked out well for Nokia... Lol.