Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls

Re:Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls by chalst on Sunday July 24, 2011 @09:48PM (#2800967)

Felix Salmon omits a point that makes Microsoft's participation in the patent cartel especially absurd: they had already licensed all of the patents from Nortel in perpetuity. Microsoft claimed, without legal basis, that it was concerned about the risk of this license being ignored by the acquirer.

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Re:Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls by shareme on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:03AM (#2802413)

Google's bid terms was that it would have right to modify terms of previous licenses once buy deal went through..

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Re:Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls by chalst on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:06AM (#2802647)

Could you source that claim? Nortel should not have the power to unilaterally change the terms of license contracts.

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