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The simple logistics of the deal make it very likely that the remaining Nokia shell company will become a patent aggressor. The only reason companies like Samsu
by corresation 13y ago
The simple logistics of the deal make it very likely that the remaining Nokia shell company will become a patent aggressor. The only reason companies like Samsung and Motorola aren't firing off patent attacks daily is that their own substantial businesses fall risk to the same sorts of attack, leading to a sort of detente. By unloading the hardware business, the entity that remains will have all of the benefits of being a patent aggressor, with none of the liabilities.
- shmerl 13y agoAnd, naturally the one pulling the strings will be MS.
- corresation 13y agoI doubt that. The remaining entity will be self-governed and will have -- to what I've seen -- no interest in or from Microsoft. However Microsoft will have a 10-year license grant, meaning that Microsoft is immune to the beast anyways.
- shmerl 13y agoMicrosoft can simply pay that shell Nokia to do the racket for them. Patent privateering is not news. Crooked companies who have something to lose pay non producing trolls to attack their competitors. Non producing trolls are harder to fight, and those companies stay in the shadows and avoid retaliation.
- foxylad 13y agoThey'll simply dust off the SCO playbook. Unless the new CEO is made of very different stuff; or US legislators realise that patent aggression is the last refuge of a scoundrel, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson.
- bostik 13y agoI think you mean Samuel Clemens. Better known by his pen-name, Mark Twain.
- maxerickson 13y agohttp://www.samueljohnson.com/refuge.html http://www.samueljohnson.com/refuge.html
- bostik 13y agoWow, thank you. Now I know the quote predates Twain's use.