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Is this the legal equivalent of setting mines and not marking them?
by m3kw9 5y ago
Is this the legal equivalent of setting mines and not marking them?
- arthurcolle 5y agoSeems like it. I like to believe this is karma for their CSAM spyware initiatives. Please continue to fight the good fight, patent trolls.
- joering2 5y agoHow long can courts delay this? How many times can Apple appeal until they have to shell out hard cash?
- jfoutz 5y agoThe federal government sued ibm for monopoly status, ibm outspent them till it didn’t matter. I’d imagine Apple could play the same game.
- nullc 5y agoIt's karma for Steve Jobs threatening to put other companies out of business with spurious patent litigation unless they joined Apple and Google in their illegal wage fixing scheme.
- nightcracker 5y agoKeep in mind it's the big companies here that set out these mines: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8019332B2/en application filed by LG Electronics Inc https://patents.google.com/patent/US8385284B2/en application filed by Panasonic Corp https://patents.google.com/patent/US8411557B2/en application filed by Panasonic Corp https://patents.google.com/patent/US9001774B2/en application filed by Samsung Electronics Co How a patent troll ended up with them, I don't know. But you can bet the only reason none of these big corps didn't use them against Apple or other big corporations is mutually assured destruction. They would not hesitate against a small company that's perceived as threatening which doesn't have a patent arsenal to fight back.
- josefx 5y agoCould it be some kind of proxy warfare? Others mentioned agreements that require companies working on a standard to license their patents, so it would make sense to move them to a "patent troll" company that isn't bound by these agreements and can go after the competition without fear for reprisal.
- genedan 5y agoSome economics textbooks that cover the topic of mutually assured destruction make analogies between nukes and patent stockpiles.