I wanted to research more about it and discuss in depth for this blog post.
Lawsuits are rocking the smartphone industry as almost every big manufacturer fights to get money from their competitors for using its patents, to block competitors' products from being imported to US.
Judge Theodore Essex of the International Trade Commission, who rules on smartphone patent cases, agreed the "prospects for peace soon are bleak. The best possible outcome is mutually assured destruction, if the various smartphone players each assemble enough critical patents that they become unwilling to sue each other."
However, not all patents are useful as weapons of war. Those essential to wireless standards are usually held where they are required to be licensed on "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms.
Interesting post I did not know there was such crazy patent wars in the smart phone industry! Great job breaking it down into simple parts in your video!
ReplyDeleteHey Tiff, I really like this post, and how you point out that almost every big MFGs fights to get money from their competitors for using its patents. In this sense, it just sounds like these big corporations are another version of patent trolls, and reserve patent litigation as another great source of revenue... thoughts?
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