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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 10:39 AM EDT |
Both Microsoft and Apple have stated they will license SEPs but only at proper
(F)RAND SEP rates. Several governments and organizations have now ruled that an
entity which is willing to license but can agree on an appropraite rate via
negotiation should not have their products barred from the marketplace.
So... NO.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 10:53 AM EDT |
You suggest that a large company (Apple/Microsoft/Other) has
the option to not license patents for a standard and yet
still have those patents included in a standard which is
being developed. One of my points was (or was supposed to
be) that if the company doesn't put the patent into the
standard on FRAND terms, then the standard is devised such
that it does not use that patent. If a standard can not be
devised in such a way then the standard itself may well be
dropped, or held back until such a time as an appropriate
workaround is found.
There is no value in negotiating on a patent which no-one
needs for the standard.
I'm not saying that all companies will or should put patents
into the standards, I am rather offering the counterpoint to
the assertion that no company would put patents in under
this ruling; an assertion that I believe to be untrue.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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