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HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google (Bloomberg)HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google (Bloomberg)Posted Sep 8, 2011 9:14 UTC (Thu) by sgros (subscriber, #36440)Parent article: HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google (Bloomberg)
What prevents HTC from using those patents now to attack other makers of Android phones?
Also, what about Samsung and its tab?
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HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google (Bloomberg) Posted Sep 8, 2011 9:56 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]
Google will sell the remainder of its patents to its remaining licensees, in small chunks. Then they can all happily sue anyone, each other, etc, except Google.
Finally a way to monetize each individual patent to the max without having to pay the lawyer's fees. Like arms dealing.
HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google (Bloomberg) Posted Sep 8, 2011 9:59 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
Depends on the deed of sale.
If Google placed a covenant on the sale that the patents can't be asserted against android kit, or can't be asserted in a first strike, or whatever whatever ... that's all totally legit.
Snag is a victim wouldn't know - we'd be relying on Google to intervene and say "you can't do that" - a bit like Novell intervened in SCOG v IBM and said "you can't do that" - and that took a while before IBM actually benefited any from it :-(
Cheers,
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