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Anything in there acquired to defend themselves against Oracle?
by andrewljohnson 15y ago
Anything in there acquired to defend themselves against Oracle?
- zizee 15y agoOr perhaps Apple.
- nextparadigms 15y agoThose object oriented programming and relational database ones perhaps.
- dredmorbius 15y agoYou fail to understand. Patents are a mass weapon. You pursue an infringement claim against some small random sampling of patents in your portfolio. Challengee has the option of 1) paying your fee or 2) challenging the patents. Your average patent case cost is $3-$10 million. http://www.inventionstatistics.com/Patent_Litigation_Costs.html http://www.inventionstatistics.com/Patent_Litigation_Costs.h... Supposing you can invalidate the patents, challenger returns with another random sampling of patents.... Eventually you 1) go broke or 2) pay up. If the companies are evenly matched (or at least sufficiently that they could drain one another bloodless), they enter into a cross-licensing agreement. I don't see any mention of what Google paid for the 1000 patents, but this suggests a very friendly relationship between Mountain View and Armonk.
- rbanffy 15y agoAnd Apple, and Microsoft. I also see a couple things that could affect IDEs (Xcode and VS), SharePoint, Bing... "Now, Microsoft, about that racket you are running against Android phone manufacturers..."