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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 08:37 AM EDT |
Apple acknowledged no such thing as you well know (and are you seriously arguing
that software patents are valid?). They can't even acknowledge Samsung didn't
infringe their bogus patents under court order!
The questionable part is of course the FRAND pledge. Is it binding? What does
it mean? What happens when parties aren't reasonable? I'm not suggesting
there's any easy answers to any of that, but I don't think that the FTC
believing that requesting 2.25% of practically all PC sales is not a reasonable
offer necessarily means they've been bought out by MS or anything. I'd make the
same conclusion if I was only looking at one side here. Does that mean there's
an antitrust angle here? I don't think so no, but I can see how someone could
think that if they haven't been following what MS has been doing closely -
that's asking for a 9 figure yearly cheque. Now that's pretty much what MS
deserve but in isolation yeah, I think it's questionable.
Don't get me wrong though, I understand that MS/Apple are trying to abuse the
whole process as well.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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