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Microsoft v. Motorola Trial in Seattle, Day 3 and Judge Crabb Explains Dismissal of Apple v. Motorola~pj | 50 comments | Create New Account
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Unproven Premise.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 16 2012 @ 08:49 AM EST
Unproven Premise: Limiting access to technology promotes invention.

Please provide an example of this premise being true. Does not have to be a
general example.

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Microsoft v. Motorola Trial in Seattle, Day 3 and Judge Crabb Explains Dismissal of Apple v. Motorola~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 16 2012 @ 05:35 PM EST
I think it is likely that the price of the licence would be unreasonable high if
it would be higher than the price of the whole generator. Especially if the
patented part is only small. Would make the price of the licensed generator
almost double the other generator.

This kind of imbalances would bring us to the smart phone costing a multiple of
the actual one, with many patent holders asking significant amounts for there
little tiny "contribution".

Not that there may not be any cases where this is possible. Suppose someone
finds a way to make cars at a tenth of the actual price. A license price, for a
limited time, between the new and the old production price seems reasonable. For
a limited time, otherwise you could be significantly blocking progress. But
seriously, what patented software invention did make that kind of
"contribution".

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