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Apple Won't Have to Pay $309M After Judge Accuses Patent Troll of Abusing System to Fleece Tech Companies
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No, it’s the dumb, stupid, ignorant, joe sixpack juries. They know absolutely nothing about tech but have been brainwashed to believe all companies are evil and need to be punished, no matter the evidence
I would like to add my voice to the chorus of those opining that capitalization is important. Without it, it's hard to read words that are smushed together. Does anyone else agree with us that capitalization is important
You're right - these joe sixpack juries are victimizing these defenseless companies. It's like David and Goliath except Goliath looks evil but really it's David that is evil. More resources won't help companies defend themselves because they already have billions or trillions in market cap and they're still being victimized. Goliath being larger won't help Goliath against David because David is cheating. If I haven't been clear, let me be explicit: evil David is joe sixpack.
Leave Apple alone. They can't stand up for themselves so I am here to defend them. If you want to be mean to Apple you have to go through me first
Bravo! Patent trolls, heck all trolls, need to be flushed out into the open for what they are - bottom feeders who want a free lunch from others. In other words, professional freeloaders. All of us Apple shareholders are very grateful for Apple's tenacity in calling PMC out regarding this scam. Many companies would have settled out of court regardless of guilt or innocence to save time & money, but Apple called their bluff. Awesome!
The real important word is profit.$308.5M -- that's < 1/2 day of revenue for Apple.
A company can have billions if not 10s of billions of revenue yet have no profit in a (bad) year, or worse.
I really don't understand your comment, it makes no sense whatsoever.
It's not the patent trolls which are the problem, insanely vague and wide coverage patents granted are the problem.
Something like: Apparatus to unlock a door.
No-one could bypass the above, unlocking a door would always infringe.
Since you apparently do know your ****, kindly enlighten the rest of us! Where did PRC acquire their patent, and, more importantly, what is the invention that FairPlay allegedly infringed?
Because if the patent is something as generic as “a method for using encryption to secure copyrighted material”, I don’t know that an inventor would be necessary. And if it is a detailed algorithm to be implemented in code, I doubt Apple stole it rather than developing their own algorithm in house.
I could be wrong and Apple could have straight up stolen the math or code from some poor inventor who sold his invention to a patent holding company. But it’s also very possible, perhaps likely, that a patent troll filed a strategically-timed, vaguely-worded patent in order to extort money from companies that do actual work to produce valuable products that make a difference to lives of real people.
a texas judge actually fighting against patent trolls for a change? shocking!
I’m not very much on this, but if I remember correctly at least in Spain you cannot patent ideas, you need to develop them at some extend. I think this would avoid all of this trolling which makes no sense for me.
Really great news. I hope that will put some stop on those trolls practices that are a plague for the whole industry. And my be a wake up call to clean the patents legislation.
I wish Apple lost this case. They need their wallets clapped more often to knock some sense into their heads.