Patent Troll Goes After Apple and Google

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Wow, these people sure know how to pick a fight! Apple and Google have more lawyers than this company has employees. :eek:

Unwired Planet on Thursday announced that it has filed patent infringement complaints against both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). “Apple and Google generate substantial revenues from devices and services that rely on the intellectual property that Unwired Planet developed and patented over the last 15 years,” the company’s CEO Mike Mulica said. “They should compensate us for the use of our patented technologies, which are foundational to mobility.”
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Those patents appear fairly worthless.

I hope this idiot gets the crap sued out of them.
 
they need to make a patent last for only 1 year for technology related products.
 
this trolling is just getting desperate
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TheBuzzer said:
because technology changes quite fast, if we have so many stuff that slows down technology advances, it sucks for us.
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But companies would be all "but that is unfair, we need them to last forevar" and then the judge will be all "why?" then they will be all "because reasons" then the Judge will agree and drive off in his new golden limo.
 
true but than for everything else investor gets paid for life and than for their future with kids and grand kids and stuff, why should technology stuff be any difference, if that happened IBM would shut down. and apple would go down in matter of years.
 
You spend 10 years of your life and a small fortune to develop a new tech marvel...only to be able to patent it for one year.

Well why bother.

See the problem?
 
daglesj said:
You spend 10 years of your life and a small fortune to develop a new tech marvel...only to be able to patent it for one year.

Well why bother.

See the problem?
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Right now the length of a patent works out to one generation which is 25 years.

Given that tech patents should last one equivalent tech generation as with each new generation the past generation becomes essentially obsolete anyway.
 
madmat said:
Right now the length of a patent works out to one generation which is 25 years.

Given that tech patents should last one equivalent tech generation as with each new generation the past generation becomes essentially obsolete anyway.
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I stand corrected, current patents are 20 years from time of filing. Still, I stand by the one generation in technology terms but not from filing date, from implementation date.
 
daglesj said:
You spend 10 years of your life and a small fortune to develop a new tech marvel...only to be able to patent it for one year.

Well why bother.

See the problem?
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If you don't, someone else will.

Using violence against someone for arranging their physical (actual) property in a certain manner is immoral.

However, regardless of your views on patents, the patents in the original article are not "inventions" in even the loosest definition of the word.

Essentially, you pay lawyers to take something that is already invented and obfuscate it so that it looks like something new to the braindead idiots they call patent examiners. It costs so much to fight BS patents (because all patents are presumed valid) that very few people can afford to fight it and most that do chose to settle because it is cheaper. Patent trolls are nothing short of terrorists; they engage in legalized, state-sponsored extortion from hard working productive members of society. They are parasites of the highest order and should be dealt with as such.
 
damicatz said:
If you don't, someone else will.

Using violence against someone for arranging their physical (actual) property in a certain manner is immoral.

However, regardless of your views on patents, the patents in the original article are not "inventions" in even the loosest definition of the word.

Essentially, you pay lawyers to take something that is already invented and obfuscate it so that it looks like something new to the braindead idiots they call patent examiners. It costs so much to fight BS patents (because all patents are presumed valid) that very few people can afford to fight it and most that do chose to settle because it is cheaper. Patent trolls are nothing short of terrorists; they engage in legalized, state-sponsored extortion from hard working productive members of society. They are parasites of the highest order and should be dealt with as such.
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I like crazy rants as much as the next person, but I think your blood pressure would be a lot lower if you moved to your very own planet away from all these societal problems that are so upsetting. I have some land with a nice view of the ocean in North Dakota that might be a great place to go to get away from it all.
 
damicatz said:
If you don't, someone else will.

Using violence against someone for arranging their physical (actual) property in a certain manner is immoral.

However, regardless of your views on patents, the patents in the original article are not "inventions" in even the loosest definition of the word.

Essentially, you pay lawyers to take something that is already invented and obfuscate it so that it looks like something new to the braindead idiots they call patent examiners. It costs so much to fight BS patents (because all patents are presumed valid) that very few people can afford to fight it and most that do chose to settle because it is cheaper. Patent trolls are nothing short of terrorists; they engage in legalized, state-sponsored extortion from hard working productive members of society. They are parasites of the highest order and should be dealt with as such.
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I'm getting the impression that the patent clerks will approve anything and then say it's up to the courts to invalidate it if it gets contested. But then the courts would say that since it's already approved, it's valid.
 
I like how they wait over 6 years to file.

Who owns the patent for "Method of inputting text or data using a virtual keyboard on a mobile device."
 
Sly said:
I'm getting the impression that the patent clerks will approve anything and then say it's up to the courts to invalidate it if it gets contested. But then the courts would say that since it's already approved, it's valid.
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This is pretty much how it works.

It is guilty until proven innocent for the alleged infringer.

Contrary to popular belief, patents neither encourage innovation nor promote the progress of the useful arts and sciences. What they do promote, however, is the pocketbook of the lawyers. The lawyers are the ones winning; they are laughing all the way to the bank with the tens of billions of dollars they steal from companies on a yearly basis.
 
Aluisious said:
Is there a way for these asshats to be countersued to bankrupt them?
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Typically, patent trolls operate by assigning the patents to asset-less shell companies. The primary company, the one where all the profit from the lawsuits ends up, assigns the patents to shell companies who then sue people for patent infringement. All profit gained by the shell company is funneled back to the primary company. If the shell company ends up getting counter-sued, there are no assets to which a judgment can be enforced upon and the primary company remains untouchable.
 
in patent law or infringement is there a statute of limitations? if there isn't than there should be. (or maybe it should be made shorter) additionally, one should be able to show or prove that you made a honest/faithful attempt to contact the infringer and asked them to either stop or license your tech.
 
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