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Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 8, 2011 13:55 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal) by Cyberax
Parent article: Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

I fear the only thing that could stop the rot in the mobile patent world would be for Google to donate all their newly acquired patents to the OIN on the condition that the OIN add android to their list of protected linux infrastructure.


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Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 10, 2011 0:58 UTC (Mon) by jlayton (subscriber, #31672) [Link]

Sadly, that won't stop trolls like IV. They do not actually produce anything, so they are in no real danger of running afoul of any of OIN's patents.

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