Comments on: Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Was For 17,000 Patents, But Only 18 May Be Needed For Battle

By: tjhrulz

tjhrulz — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:25:00 +0000

This made me think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo

By: Kinchas

Kinchas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

This suit is about settling cross licensing agreements. No company holds all the patents to produce a smartphone. The solution to that is for parties to enter into cross licensing agreements. It is likely the patents mentioned above are the reason for these suits. Moto wanted more for one or more of its patents than Apple and MS wanted to pay. Solution. SUE.

By: Kinchas

Kinchas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000

In all probability it is patents like the one above that led to the lawsuit between Apple and Moto. No one company holds all of the patents necessary to produce a smartphone. The normal way to deal with this is for the players to cross license their patents…freeing up the process. These kinds of lawsuits usually happen when parties cant come to an agreement on the cross licensing. There have been a couple of blogs that suggest, at the end of the day Moto will earn more for its patents than it pays out for others. If that is the case…Moto probably wanted more money for a cross license with Apple…than Apple wanted to pay. Solution. SUE. Finally, you may hold a patent, but it is not valid until tested in court. That’s why patent holders often don’t want to actually go all the way. Better to settle and leave the validity of a less than perfect patent untested. Apple, MS and Moto all face that. I think they will all settle. And that would be the perfect ending. All the rest of the lawsuits would pretty much go away at that point.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:15:00 +0000

I think the main problem is that the American patent system has never understood the electronic world. Once all the older generation dies out and ours takes over, I think we will see that change.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:01:00 +0000

Android just has notification bar, Apple has a magical and revolutionary notification bar.

By: Brian Trahan

Brian Trahan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:27:00 +0000

Yes but the dirty little secret is that Moto. Mobile also had all of their cable box business in it as well. So Google TV also got a huge boost.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:09:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:31:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:04:00 +0000

All that they come up with in the future couldnt hurt either.

By: Jeffrey Garcia

Jeffrey Garcia — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:08:00 +0000

Google paid 12.5 billion on Motorola for just 18 meaningful patents?

By: Crack Monkey

Crack Monkey — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:22:00 +0000

As a software engineer my view of software patents is that they will curtail innovation. if you happen to think up a solution to a logical problem which is what software engineers do you will now have to make sure nobody has filed a patent. Once while doing patent searches for a company I worked for some 20 years ago I saw a patent for a “for loop” in C. This simple concept was patented by a big well know company.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:56:00 +0000

I imagine it is because before, Android was not in Motorola’s hands and thus they could not be used to defend Android.

By: zack

zack — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:55:00 +0000

I agree but apple can’t have anyone outsmarting them. Oh but wait apple has added a notification bar in OS 5 for i*phone.

By: Gilda Cameron

Gilda Cameron — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:55:00 +0000

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