I bothered to read though the patent quite a bit and though I'm not a
lawyer I was struck by the language as if they never really developed
anything but instead came up with a concept that they thought someone
else might try to implement in the future. Time has probably come
unless you want innovation to come to a halt to do a complete overhaul
of the patent system.
On 06/01/2011 11:41 AM, Felipemnoa wrote:
Lodsys strategy may be to cause a lot of pain to google by going after the
developers. If a lot of developers start to complain they pribably think that
that may speed up negotiations in their favor. The real problem here is that
the patent was granted in the first place.
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Tim Mensch<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/1/2011 2:48 AM, Craig White wrote:
Their licensing fees were
purposely set low to
> Apple and Google because those companies pay patent lawyers
already
> so there's no incentive for Lodsys to get into a protracted
legal
> battle that might invalidate their patent.
They didn't license the patents to Google and Apple. That was done before
LodSys acquired the patents in question as part of a block of (IIRC) 30,000
patents, and the only question is whether the license that Google and Apple own
cover the usage of the technology in question in externally developed
applications.
They actually ARE trying to squeeze more money from Apple and Google. In the press
release about their lawsuits against developers they mention being "surprised"
that Apple mentioned their secret negotiations publicly.
US patent law sucks -
especially when it comes to software patents.
That much is certain.
Tim
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