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This seems to be a commendable action (even if it is forced by the standards body) to me - come forward with what patents you have publicly and then it can be r
by zmmmmm 14y ago
This seems to be a commendable action (even if it is forced by the standards body) to me - come forward with what patents you have publicly and then it can be resolved.
Contrast to Microsoft who claims mysterious patents on Android and refuses to disclose what they are purposefully to create and aura of FUD and prevent any resolution. With these patents in the open, Google can work around them, license them or dispute their infringement directly.
- pazimzadeh 14y agoAll patents are by definition, publicly viewable. But you may be right in that figuring out which patents are associated with which technologies can be hard when companies have thousands of them. One would think that Google would on average be better at searching through a large database of patents than any other company, though.
- noonespecial 14y agoMost of the patents in question probably read more like "method to send video over a network" than technical documents. Everyone in the space has some. What they are disclosing is which ones they intend to make a nuisance over.
- fafner 14y ago> Unwilling to Commit to the Provisions of a), b), or c) Above. That's the evil part. It means they are unwilling to license those patents. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipr-template-09 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipr-template-09