Re:Damages like the $147M verdict against RIM could make sma...
by ajross on Sunday July 15, 2012 @11:10AM
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Of course the patent was silly. Almost all of them are. The news hers is that the jury came up with $8US as the reasonable per-handset license fee. As the blog post points out, extrapolating that to the number of known, licensable patents used by a modern handset leads to a total IP license cost of about a million dollars for a device with a cost of production of about $150. It's a clear existence proof that the patent regime is unsustainable.
It's also clearly a mistake by the jury (or the judge maybe, depending on details about jury instructions about which I'm ignorant), and I'm sure it will be reduced on appeal.
All phones have wires in them, thats how there low-level transport layer work. Is a wire perfectly dense or are there gaps at the sub atomic level which the electrons flow.
If you think of a old sailboat battleship as a device and semiphore as the wireless transport layer then you could equaly apply this to Nelsons times.
Also thought configuration of a phone was done via the GSM and even the CDMA standards in that the registeration process to the network and control SMS do that. WHat came first, hmmmm.
1) patent should never of been approved upon common sence of the time and mearly add's nothing. 2) charge per use is just plain old silly 3) chewbacca defence used at all on the jury?
makes you wonder: get all patents add word wireless as a adjective and patent as something new. Wait a bit, then profit. Crazy