Due to the wonders of the US patent system, if you can be shown to be aware of a patent and then you're judged to infringe on it the penalties are higher than if you can claim ignorance.
Patent discussions on some of the Android discussion groups get ... ermm.... ignored and/or cut short... because of this, so don't rely on anyone from Google acknowledging anything to do with patents because the only buttong they're likely to hit is delete. Al. -- Al Sutton - Funky Android Ltd. (www.funkyandroid.com) T: @alsutton G+: http://goo.gl/ymi9b The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 6 Feb 2012, at 09:53, Anguel wrote: > On Feb 5, 7:32 am, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would be shocked if A) Google doesn't already have an army of lawyers >> already keeping tabs on these things > > I have learned not to rely on experts spotting a problem in advance. > Things are sometimes easy to overlook. Android accessory development > protocol is something new and not one of Android's main topics. On the > other hand, as a small company I am really afraid to starting > development of Android accessories just to find out that Apple gets a > patent and stops other people from communicating between accessories > and smart devices. They even list Android, Blackberry and WebOS in > their patent as possible smartphones. I also notice that only Apple > has issued such patent applications. They seem to have a large budget, > also being sponsored by Google's Android developers. Looking at the > Google I/O videos I only see Macbooks. That's where all the money for > Apple's patent wars comes from. > >> and B) said army is using this forum > > I don't expect Google's lawyers to know that forums like this even > exist. On the other hand, I have no way to contact those guys. So I > just hope that some of Google's employees will see my post and maybe > check if there is something going on in that direction. > > Regards, > Anguel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. >
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