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Speculation: A motorola license negotiation for THE SAME patents just concluded... | 28 comments | Create New Account
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Judge Robart Reopens MS v. Motorola Nov. Trial for New Evidence From Motorola ~pj
Authored by: hAckz0r on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:19 PM EST
Possibly one of two reasons
1) To get out of having to make a decsion
2) To help M$ set a trap that lets hin throw portions of the case out, or the
book at Motorolla.


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Speculation: A motorola license negotiation for THE SAME patents just concluded...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 10:04 AM EST
That would be big enough to get the judges attention.....

Christenson

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Judge Robart Reopens MS v. Motorola Nov. Trial for New Evidence From Motorola ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:45 PM EST
I think the Judge is trying to be as thorough as possible. That's a good
thing.

This is a contract law case, not an epic battle between Good VS Evil.

Google = Good
MS = Evil
Moto = ? In my opinion the things Moto is suing over could set precedents
that could be terrible for the entire tech industry as well as consumers.

In my opinion Moto's initial 2.25% of final sale price of a
device/phone/computer is far away from a RAND offer.

Luckily, Moto dropped the WiFi patents from this lawsuit, but now there are
other WiFi patent owners going after hotels and coffee shops that share
WiFi with there customers. The hotels and coffee shops bought WiFi
routers assuming that they were covered by the licenses that the router
manufacturer's paid.

Now the WiFi patent trolls/NPE can use Moto's arguements in this trial to
extort WiFi patents fees from your local mom and pop coffee shop. Hence
my statement that Moto could be setting bad precedents. Unfortunately for
mom and pop, the Wifi patent issues were withdrawn, and there was no
legal decision, so mom and pop have to pay up, or go to trial which they
obviously can't afford.

Also:

If more than 50 patent owners all demanded 2.25% of the final sale price,
no manufacturer could afford to build any of our cool tech devices.
Considering many of these devices contain 1000s of patents owned by
100s of comapanies, Moto's actions could stunt the industry if many other
patent holders act in the same manner.

This is going to be decided by the courts, not you or I.

I am allowed to hold an opposing opinion without being a troll.

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