Did Google acquire Motorola just to prepare its patent arsenal?
It's impossible to know from the outside, but there was a lot of conjecture about that.
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#12It's about time.
Why is it okay for Google to do it but not say, Oracle? It's ridiculous no matter who does it.
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Yep, someone decided that MAD was worth it or that they could win. It certainly looks like it's going to be a fun time for the lawyers and people with popcorn. So far we've got Apple suing Motorola, Motorola suing back. Apple suing Samsung, and now Google suing Apple. Any others I've missed?
This is Motorola suing Apple again, for the record.
If Google owns Motorola, they could put a stop to this if they wanted to, no?
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#16Does anybody else feel all the tech giants standing around with their patents in hand is like all the characters standing around with guns like at the end of Reservoir Dogs?
"Nobody innovate or we'll shoot!"
It's intriguing at first, but you can only keep it up so long before the plot line gets annoying because no one is doing anything (or innovating), or someone gets shot.
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#17Did Google acquire Motorola just to prepare its patent arsenal?
That acquisition made a lot of strategic sense for a variety of reasons.. Not the least of which is their core business in producing phones and even for that matter cable set top boxes (see Google Fiber). That being said the IP was surely a significant factor.
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#18I think it is part of a plan to destroy western society by locking up all the courts and government with unanswerable questions such as "Who first thought of the rectangle?".
Soon, there will be nothing left but a wasteland and some lawyers arguing over who gets to own half a dead cat while they warm their hands on oil drums full of burning currency.
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#19We all knew that the second someone started wielding their "defensive" patents the whole system was going to fall apart. Well...here we go I guess.
The headline is incorrect; this is Motorola suing Apple, not Google, which has happened before (as the article states).
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#20We all knew that the second someone started wielding their "defensive" patents the whole system was going to fall apart. Well...here we go I guess.
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