Posts tagged: patents
Mosaid said it will buy about 2,000 wireless patents from Core Wireless, which holds them for Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Microsoft (MSFT.O).
Mosaid said it will pay nothing for the patents, but will shoulder the costs of reaching licensing deals with other companies and take a one-third cut of any deals made.
The deal is “transformative” for Mosaid and revenue from future licensing will likely exceed the company’s revenue from its first 35 years in business, Mosaid Chief Executive John Lindgren told Reuters.
The Intellectual Property scene is set to look bloodier then ever in the years to come. Hopefully, this doesn’t stall technological development as badly as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has for the future of DVD.
Google will keep fighting, but realistically, the jury will get to see the Lindholm email. As a result, there’s a fairly high risk for Google that it could be found to have infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property rights willfully, which in turn would result in triple damages and, even more importantly, an injunction — the maximum leverage Oracle could possibly get in order to dictate the terms of a license deal.
Exciting!
The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are featured in many Apple stores.
Wow.
On Friday, August 12, Google filed inter partes reexamination requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the two patents asserted in patent infringement claims by Lodsys against, among others, several Android developers. The patents subject to these requests are U.S. Patent Nos. 7,222,078 and 7,620,565.
We have had a chance to review the reexamination requests, and after that review we believe Lodsys is in for a rough time. We have seen reexam requests before, but when we saw these, the above quote came to mind. Lodsys, you shouldn’t have brought a knife to a gunfight.
Good job.
Google doesn’t want to do what Motorola Mobility does (sell phones); it wants the company because it’s got a big heap of patents—seventeen thousand, apparently, with seven thousand more under review. And this is why today’s news is profoundly depressing.
I can sense that other Android OEMs, such as Samsung and HTC, would be rushing to find an alternative mobile OS, and Windows Phone 7 looks the most attractive thus far.
The smartphone landscape would be exciting to watch as upheavals are really threatening competitors without their own mobile OSes.
Judge Alsup — the federal judge presiding over this litigation — attaches a great deal of importance to that particular document. At a recent hearing, he essentially said that a good trial lawyer would just need that document “and the Magna Carta” (arguably the origin of common law) to win this case on Oracle’s behalf and have Google found to infringe Oracle’s rights willfully.
Google’s behaviour is pretty appalling. What’s happened to “Don’t be Evil”?
In an effort to protect its iOS developers, Apple has filed a motion to intervene in legal action taken by patent-holder Lodsys over App Store in-app purchases.
Good to hear. I never knew that it was possible to name yourself as a defendant in someone else’s lawsuit, uninvited.
