Posts by GadgetDon

With Samsung being on record "we won't negotiate a license", what relevance would a license agreement with another company be?

And one more thing - if the decision had gone the other way, the judge had found infringement on the part of Samsung and had said "oh, and Samsung must publish ads and post on their website 'we copied Apple'" I'd be almost as opposed....

If Apple had either made advertisements of "don't buy Samsung, it's a ripoff of our products" or featured the argument on their website, advertising to cure might be justified to correct what Apple did in that media. But they never did....

If Apple had either made advertisements of "don't buy Samsung, it's a ripoff of our products" or featured the argument on their website, advertising to cure might be justified to correct what Apple did in that media. But they never did....

The current iPad is 9 different models in two different colors (so 18 different choices). Three storage size choices, and three connectivity choices (Wi-Fi only, ATT, Verizon). If they add an 8GB size, that's 12 models.

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich    So, because there is a spotlight being shone on patent disputes now, versus the probably thousands of other cases on the books, it's suddenly MORE IMPORTANT to...

Quote: Originally Posted by hill60    Guess what.   As a member of MPEG LA, Google may not be able to use it's affiliate/subsidiary to enforce an agreement outside the scope of the terms of...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich    There is actually relatively little wrong with the current patent system. It works, overburdened though it is. What's wrong is companies ripping off the patent...

I don't think Google is making this as an argument in the current litigation, clearly the law as currently stands has no such concept as "commercially essential". In theory, they're asking the laws be changed to create that...

Quote: Originally Posted by realwarder Rather than letting the market sort itself out, Apple worked with publishers to make book pricing more expensive by denying Amazon the ability to sell books at the prices it wanted to. Sounds...