Simon, It does not matter whether Nokia is responsible for most of the technology or not. Many manufacturers are using GSM and I am sure legally. Not being a patent lawyer, there are either royalties paid or fair use rights involved. I would submit that stealing is a rather strong term because stealing implies that the company, such as Apple, in fact committed a crime. There is a lot of hair to be split over this and there is probably some back story that we are not aware of either. Companies may tread heavily into patented technologies, but stealing them outright is a bit to bold since that is an easy case to win. Furthermore, if Nokia was so concerned, they could have sounded the alarm sooner, but likely wanted to wait and see if the iPhone would generate enough revenue to make a case worth the money. That goes back to the whole issue of ROI. I think in the end the whole case will just blow away because Apple will reach into its rather deep pocket and tell Nokia to go away. See Apple has this large pot of money that others really want to help them spend and a lawsuit is one way to help a company unburden itself from all that spare cash. Wow I'm such a conspiracy theorist aren't I? :)
On May 10, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Nokia are responsible for a large portion of the mobile technology we have > in the world today. > I would hope that they aren't going down. > And besides, apple like other companys will be gilty of steeling patents > from other companys. It's just part of life. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
