Patent Licensing Company WiLan Wins $145.1 Million From Apple in Patent Dispute

[omihek]

If it’s legal then it’s fine.

Try saying that 200 years ago.

 

[MauiPa]

And your point? The company owns the patent,..so why shouldn't they. Apple has done the same with Samsung & other companies.

Apple should have settled prior. Stubborn & stupid!

so says the man with nothing. You did read the part where they defeated the $248 million claim? oh? well re-read carefully this time.

The fact is that intellectual property rights are a mess and Bush made it worse when they tried to fix it years ago, but at least they tried Think about it, you license Bluetooth but some patent troll has patented actually using it to connect to devices. So what you are supposed to put Bluetooth in devices, but not use it? Another is Qualcomm's licensing their technology and then charging unreasonable fees on the whole value of the product using it, not just the technology they have patented.

Agree or not, these issues have to be resolved and Congress doesn't seem to have any desire to bring clarity, so it will be left to private industry to do so through lawsuits. Unfortunately, this usually just leads to fragmented and inconsistent application of rules that defy common sense. and very rich lawyers. Just thinking, if Congress is comprised of almost all lawyers, ..............
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Hey Apple, you live by the sword, you die by the sword. Time for you to start paying, and stop stealing. Is there anything you do that doesn't involve stealing from others and trying to pass it as your own innovations? This practice works with your blind followers but not in a court of law.

get an education, please

 

[Gasu E.]

Hey Apple, you live by the sword, you die by the sword. Time for you to start paying, and stop stealing. Is there anything you do that doesn't involve stealing from others and trying to pass it as your own innovations? This practice works with your blind followers but not in a court of law.

Clearly you have no conception of how product development and engineering work. Nor do you have a realistic idea of what patents are all about. Engineers develop a product under deadline. There is no additional process where lawyers and engineers get together and identify every single possible concept and idea, document that, and check that against a patent data base; such a process would mean product development would take three times as long and cost ten times as much. Many technologists have the same ideas at about the same time and are unaware of each others'; there's no intent to steal, it's just that people have the same ideas at about the same time.

 

[Sevanw]

get an education, please

Done! Now you get your head out of Apple's....

 

[Rocketman]

Patent holding companies are part of the problem because they are non practicing entities.
AMD makes an x86 chip. intel says “we own the x86 instruction set.”
AMD says “you make chips using x86-64, and we hold the patent.”
An agreement is reached and innovation continues.

Patent holding companies are just lawsuit engines stifling innovation. They would be LESS trouble if bs patents weren’t being awarded, like Amazon’s patent on photographing a subject against a white background (yes, it’s real) in spite of the fact that there is prior art for more than 100 years before Amazon was formed.

Don't they also license the tech as well as sue? You never hear about that.

 

[H2SO4]

Clearly you have no conception of how product development and engineering work. Nor do you have a realistic idea of what patents are all about. Engineers develop a product under deadline. There is no additional process where lawyers and engineers get together and identify every single possible concept and idea, document that, and check that against a patent data base; such a process would mean product development would take three times as long and cost ten times as much. Many technologists have the same ideas at about the same time and are unaware of each others'; there's no intent to steal, it's just that people have the same ideas at about the same time.

Companies as big as Apple with the might of research and army of lawyers KNOW when they are very likely if not certainly violating a patent.
Try not to be so myopic.