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Apple Google Patent Fight, part II
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I dunno...
The Nortel auction suggests Google's nose might not be big enough to buy any meaningful patent protection. Microsoft already had an iron clad license for the Nortel portfolio and they still chipped in, just to make sure Google wouldn't have access to them; a pure take-away play. You don't make a move like that if you're not prepared to repeat it. Google has a lot of enemies eager for payback that should be willing to join the Apple-Microsoft alliance. And, for that matter, some of the android vendors might see getting their own private protection as a way to get a competitive advantage on their unprotected brethren. If those patents are *really* that fundamental (obviously the seller wants to puff up the portfolio's value) the bidding war might drive the price beyond what Google might ever get from android; Google has deep pockets but so do their foes. And it looks like those foes (and not just Oracle) smell blood... |
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There is another patent pool battle brewing:
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Presumably there comes a point where a company decides that it will cost them less paying out possible licensing fees than coughing up in advance for a patent portfolio (factoring in the potential return from that portfolio).
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I read this morning that Google may now be open to paying a settlement to Oracle.
I'd bet that much of this is to quell questions among its handset partners and/or defections to Windows 7. Much of the cutting/bleeding edge is happening with Android as the OS, and Google no doubt wants to keep it that way. |
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There were some major 'win some lose some' for both Google and Oracle today, but the judge did agree with Oracle that:
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Again I don't get why Apple is going after patents Google needs them to protect android manufacturers Microsoft needs to stop that as it will stop its cash cow from Android.
Apple is only buying patents to stop competition not to protect itself. I am not an Apple hater just don't feel its products satisfy my needs but I do admire their hardware. If apple gets these patents it will be bad as it will kill competition. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...ictory-1-.html
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Yawn. Does anyone even care anymore? Buy whatever you like, because there is an option for everyone out there. Pretending that it matters which format is preferred is sooooo 2010.
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