No, it can happen when any company has a dominant enough position in their industry that they could be considered a price-setter.
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Apple Owes Spanish Company Over $110 Million for Violating Wireless Patents
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this board can be pretty funny sometimes
ex-apple employee downloads some files: "lock him up"
apple is found liable in court for infringing patents: "patent trolls!"
ex-apple employee downloads some files: "lock him up"
apple is found liable in court for infringing patents: "patent trolls!"
No, because for that logic, you would have to say the iPhone Pro model was using the cheapest components possible.
Also no, he wouldn’t be charging the maximum amount he could justify. You put a bunch of components together and try to make a competitive price for it. Apple is selling phones, not pharmaceuticals.
Apple has to include any business expense whether that be a lawsuit, product failures, warranty cost, etc., in the total price of the product. It’s hard for people that don’t understand these things to wrap their head around this but it’s how businesses work. Every dollar that Apple has comes from paying customers.
In Europe Software patents are illegal so this is something only in the USA could happen. Maybe the patent is related to a whole device but as it seems that this company has no products I guess that is just a program or software patent ( I may be wrong).
But for me yes, it’s a shame that Spanish company is involved in the news when it should say a Scam Company or Scam Lawyer Company or something not related to Spain. We have already enough problems as it is.
Software patents under the European Patent Convention - Wikipedia
A few options:
1. Don't tell anyone about your invention until you are ready to use it.
2. Sell the idea to someone who is prepared to produce it. Keep enough of it secret that they can't just steal it from you before they've paid you what it's worth.
3. Let the invention be open to all (the altruistic option, and it may surprise you how popular it actually would be).
There is no such thing as a "patent troll". If you have the knowledge, skill, and sophistication to invent something and patent it, you have the right to protect it. Corporations like Apple steal technology all the time, yet some people defend that behavior and criticize those that actually innovated.
LOL yeah they really “invented cutting edge” 3G tech that they decided to approach Apple about in 2021. The same 3G that first rolled out in Japan in 1998.
Ah, not really the way it works. Lower frequencies travel further with less attenuation.
Australia, where we have some of the largest cells in the world, has already ditched 3G we just rolled out 4G over 850 and 900Mhz. In order to do that they had to turn off the 3G on the same frequencies.
am not sure what that means but what I know is 3G will reach much further than 4G. same reason 4g reaches further than 5g. What am I missing?
Because you are wrong.
The effective transmission distance has nothing to do with the generation of technology but the frequency at which they operate.
4G and 5G added higher frequency bands to their specification and those have shorter distances and higher bandwidth, but they are exclusively used in high population density areas where short range is desirable.
4G and 5G still have the lower frequencies in their specification like 850/900 MHz which is the same frequency used by 3G in many places and has the same effective range.
The challenge is you have to turn off the 3G that uses those frequencies to switch it to 4G/5G which is why in places that haven’t done that the 3G goes further, Australia for instance has already turned off 3G so we have the same distance on 4G as we did 3G in the bush.
LTE frequency bands - Wikipedia
Because you are wrong.
The effective transmission distance has nothing to do with the generation of technology but the frequency at which they operate.
4G and 5G added higher frequency bands to their specification and those have shorter distances and higher bandwidth, but they are exclusively used in high population density areas where short range is desirable.
4G and 5G still have the lower frequencies in their specification like 850/900 MHz which is the same frequency used by 3G in many places and has the same effective range.
The challenge is you have to turn off the 3G that uses those frequencies to switch it to 4G/5G which is why in places that haven’t done that the 3G goes further, Australia for instance has already turned off 3G so we have the same distance on 4G as we did 3G in the bush.
LTE frequency bands - Wikipedia
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so you saying 5G if given the bandwidth of 3g can reach just as far with same speed of close range? Or is it going to drop to 3g speeds but still get the signal?