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Re:Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Pa... by burgerbrain on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:29PM (#2812860)
Worse? That is exactly what we have right now!
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Re:Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Pa... by VMG on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:13PM (#2813896)
They are still suing each other. There could be a system where there is a cartel that only sues the small ones.
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Re:Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Pa... by beagle3 on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @06:55PM (#2814621)
That's already happening. Google, MS, Apple, IBM, Intel, AMD/ATI, nVidia, AT&T and a few others already have cross-licensing deals essentially between everyone and everyone. It's just that HTC and Samsung are not part of _this_ cartel.
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Re:Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Pa... by burgerbrain on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @07:15PM (#2814686)
That is the current system's default mode of operation. What do you think MPEG LA is?
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Re:Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Pa... by tsotha on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:09AM (#2815595)
That's essentially the situation in hardware. All the big players have portfolios of patents which they swap in cross-licensing deals. As a newcomer you have no chance of breaking into the business since you don't have a portfolio of your own - you'd get sued out of business.
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