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These patents have already been tested in court by other Android handset manufacturers and MS won. Samsung would only be increasing the cost, reducing the likel
by Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
These patents have already been tested in court by other Android handset manufacturers and MS won. Samsung would only be increasing the cost, reducing the likelihood of a favourable partnership deal and postponing the inevitable.
- Zaim2 15y agoDo you have links/sources? I only know of Barnes & Noble and Motorola fighting against MS, afaik everyone else immediately settled.
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- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoSorry, you're right, the other five didn't actually fight it, I'd thought one of them had. What I would say thought is (a) Motorola's fight isn't going brilliantly and (b) when the likes of HTC - hardly small fry - think it's best just to license, there's probably something there.
- Hoff 15y agoThat's not the way that patent cross-licensing works.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoSo you're saying that if one handset manufacturer had had a legal ruling against them for patent violations relating to Android that wouldn't create a legal precedent?
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- Hoff 15y agoJust because you've won a judgement or because you have received licensing payments does not ensure your negotiation position is invulnerable, whether this is due to the patent portfolio (and your own potential for infringements of that portfolio) or the particular domain knowledge or awareness of prior art that might be available to your opponent. This particular business situation is fairly common, and can lead to so-called patent cross-licensing. A form of corporate truce. And there may well be consideration paid (and in either direction), but that's all subject to negotiation.