Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
by rms on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:33PM
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Do they get to keep all the money they collected as royalties?
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Unless the contract says otherwise, yep. But I doubt they'll be able to keep on charging current licensees (like Apple for example)...
I'm surprised that companies like Apple, with sizeable legal departments, didn't bother to do the research necessary to get the patent thrown out. Sure, I can see that they might pay royalties in the short term for the sake of expediency, but I wonder why they didn't also investigate getting the patent re-examined themselves...