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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 11:27 PM EDT |
If I knew what maintenance or champerty was I would probably
agree with you - if I didn't post the comment before you,
this is and get the triple-letter score in Scrabble first.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 08:00 AM EDT |
If Vringo extracts a puny $20 mil, Microsoft breaks even.
More than that and Microsoft wins double.
The fact that Microsoft gets away with it is incredible.
It's like handing a speeding driver a faster car.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 01:15 PM EDT |
Looks a lot like the payments SCO received from Microsoft
for their pseudo "rights on Linux". Kind of routine for Ms?
Shows also 3 problems with current patent law. 3 steps to
correct could be:
- Any deal involving patents should become void, if the
patents where that deal is based upon becomes invalid. Money
payed back. So the USPTO no longer gives a goldmine away
when not checking properly.
- For that, any deal, request, negociation for payment
should explicitly mention the patents involved.
- And, most importantly, a patent holder should treat
everybody equally to limit the damage to competition that
the patent system is causing.
Don't know that makes any legal sense. Looks like rules
against troll misuse of patents also limit other misuse. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 09:43 AM EDT |
You said:
"and by assigning six patents to it for a five percent cut of any amount it
extracts from Google in settlement or damages."
This is incorrect.
The amount payed for the 6 patents is undisclosed.
The 5% is what Micrsoft will have to pay compared to Google for the Lycos
patents. So if Google damges go up by 10 million than Micrsofts damages go up by
500k
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 09:51 AM EDT |
The 5% thing reminds me of an old joke. It goes like this:
A guy walking along a beach one day finds an old lamp. He rubs it and out pops
a genie.
The genie says, "I'll give you 3 wishes but I'm not a normal genie. With
every wish, your mother in law will get twice your wish."
For his first wish, the man says, "I want 100 million dollars."
Instantly 100 million dollars appears and the genie says, "Right now your
mother is law is getting 200 million dollars.
Next the man says, "I'd like an big house on an island in the caribbean.
The genie complies and then says, "Right now your mother in law is getting
2 houses on 2 islands in the caribbean."
For his third wish, the man thinks for a moment and says, "I'd like to you
beat me half to death."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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