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Your analogy is flawed. It would be more like: I spent 40B euros figuring out how to and and digging a well to get water to my parched village. I add a bucket,
by warfangle 17y ago
Your analogy is flawed. It would be more like:
I spent 40B euros figuring out how to and and digging a well to get water to my parched village. I add a bucket, but the water is still kind of muddy. I'm the only well, though, so I do well enough.
Then someone comes along and digs a well a couple hundred feet away, adds a pumping system (so they can sell more water) and a filtration system (so the water is cleaner). Nobody wants my water anymore. So I'm about to go broke.
So of course, instead of making a better pumping and filtration system, I sue the guy making the better well. At least, that's Nokia's position.
- GHFigs 17y agoIn the above post, the well represents the patented technology. He creates the technology (digs the well) and patents it (seeks to profit from it by monopolizing it's use). In your analogy, you seem to be skipping the issue of patents entirely. Note that Apple did not go out and "dig it's own well" by developing something completely unrelated to GSM, UTMS, Wi-Fi, etc. Whether Nokia's claim turns out to be valid aside, it's undeniable that Apple is using the technology that Nokia is making the claim on. That is to say, they aren't suing over Apple developing "the better well", they're suing Apple for using their well without compensation.