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Apple, Microsoft, Oracle Lead Unholy Patent Alliance Against Android
- senthilnayagam 15y agoinfographic of 37 android related litigation http://twitpic.com/4c6an1/full http://twitpic.com/4c6an1/full google/android is not an angel, they have copied generously for building their platform, which is illegal under current patent regime but I do love innovation, maybe its high time we get rid of software patents once for all
- protomyth 15y agoaren't quite a lot of the LTE patents hardware?
- yalogin 15y agoAwful reporting. I stopped reading that bull shit after this - The reason the non-Android phone makers are suing the Android phone makers is because they formed a consortium to buy a bunch of patents from Nortel when it went bankrupt. These companies sued each other before the Nortel patents entered the picture. Anyone who follows Android must know it. Its almost as if this guy came out of his cave, googled a little about android and patents and wrote this article.
- tzs 15y agoIt actually got worse after that, where he started blathering about antitrust based on the winning bid being 5 times higher than the opening bid.
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- hello_moto 15y agoWhat if... (this is probably a crazy naive "what if") all these legal stuffs highlights the problem with the current patent systems and forces government to start thinking seriously how to improve it? Perhaps this drama should be blown out of proportion while we're on it so that it stinks so bad that even "dumb" customers would start rallying against it :)
- sliverstorm 15y agoI think the "highlights" are going to have to be much bigger. For example, patenting "A legal document laying the ground rules for running a nation", suing the United States for the Constitution, and winning. Yes, the Constitution was written before the patent system even existed. Like I said, it'd have to be big.