Comments on: Are Samsung’s new patent threats an offer to cross-license with Apple? http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/ Sun, 26 May 2013 02:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ghodagadi http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-975175 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:23:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-975175 I read somewhere today that Apple has been acquiring non FRAND LTE patents. True?

]]> By: me http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-964028 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:49:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-964028 Well that’s part of the problem isn’t it. Apple patents stuff that makes Samsungs innovation desireable but isn’t quite standards essential. Samsung patents innovation without which the industry wouldn’t be possible so are legally obliged to license it. Apple are just abusing a faulty US patent system.

]]> By: Observer http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-963306 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:26:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-963306 Yeah those greedy Apple bastards.

Samsung phones are made by little elfs for the good of mankind.

]]> By: Puntam http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-960531 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:01:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-960531 I think you’re missing an important point. This threat from Samsung is coming at at this strategic time simply because the iPhone 5 release is just around the corner.

Regardless of the US verdict and appeal it really isn’t as meaningful as we North Americans ignorantly believe it to be. Growth in the mobile industry resides to the greatest degree in Asia, where similar suits are falling like dominoes.

And as Apple trumpets the victory horns on the home field, Samsung is quietly pumping their attention to those more important markets.

Litigation will only buy Apple a finite amount of time, and in techyears time is only a blink of the eye. Apple needs to get back to what it is that THEY do best – their current focus in my opinion is simply greed.

]]> By: budanski http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-959065 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:32:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-959065 The jurors were fretted by both sides and both sides knew he owned patents. Did your Groklaw tell you that none of the jurors owned an iphone and the foreman hadnt owned a mac in years?

You need to stop listening to uneducated pundits… http://seekingalpha.com/article/835091-apple-s-verdict-will-likely-survive-appeal

]]> By: Delax http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-959011 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:09:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-959011 Apple did chip in a couple billion dollars or so for Nortel’s patents that included LTE patents..so Apple has LTE patents also. Samsung has more but it’s about quality and not quantity. Who has the more valuable LTE patents? Who knows. I’m pretty sure Apple will be buying LTE chips from Qualcomm.

]]> By: pkj http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-958877 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:54:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-958877 G – It depends quite a bit on what the actual claims in the patents of concern say. If the claims are bounded by the area of the chip then they are probably exhausted. But I would bet some of the claims have elements that go outside of the Intel (or other) chips – like referring to memory, or an antenna, or a handheld system … Then you need to look much closer and have the lawyers argue about it.

]]> By: natclayful http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-958648 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:37:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-958648 Apple is rich enough…but if you think about it they are also scared too.

]]> By: eldernorm http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-958640 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:34:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-958640 I do question this article a bunch. There are too many writers that just do not understand that Apple has no desire to license its ideas to people that want to make junk. They licensed items to Microsoft with the proviso that Microsoft not copy Apples design.

It really is straight forward and this whole idea of mega copying comes from when these other cell phone builders do not innovate, but rather just copy each other and try to make the cheapest phone they can. Like the race to the bottom that Dell and HP etc engage in. Everyone makes the same thing and changes the color of the case.

Apple is pushing the boundaries in many areas from ease of use, to functionality, to sturdiness, to UI. And I do not think its going to stop.

Just a thought.

]]> By: eldernorm http://gigaom.com/2012/08/30/are-samsungs-new-patent-threats-an-offer-to-cross-license-with-apple/#comment-958621 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:30:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558102#comment-958621 Gee Michael, hate Apple much.??? I disagree with Groklaw.
Gee stop people that have any idea about anything, lets see, law, patent, electronics, use a cellphone, etc, etc.
I would not call that a jury of peers, would you.??

The results were done quickly but well. Just listen to the foreman. Even he thought differently when he first started but the evidence made him change his mind. Blatent copying is not right. Even Google told them that.

Just a thought.

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