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I would think this will definitely increase Google's interest in RIM and its patent arsenal.
RIM is a co-owner of Rockstar.
>When Wired visited Rockstar's Ontario headquarters, it found 10 reverse-engineering experts, working daily to take apart products and find patent infringement.
>With just a few dozen employees, Rockstar is hoping to convince more than 100 technology companies to pay it patent licensing fees for a huge array of products. "Pretty much anyone out there is infringing," said Rockstar's CEO, John Veschi.
Oh fuck these guys.
The patent system has been out of hand for a while but the big corporations haven't complained too much about it because having huge patent portfolios themselves allowed them to build a virtual moat around their business units. If things go nuclear and they start hemorrhaging even more legal fees, they may begin to exert more pressure to change the system. Given some of the recent proposed legislation, hopefully the…
'One patent filed in 1997, for a "navigation tool for graphical user interface," describes a way of navigating through electronic documents. Another describes an "Internet protocol filter," and a third patent describes an "integrated message center."' Well with earth-shaking innovative patents like that I hope they succeed. I would never have thought of an integrated message center for anything.
This is just comically ridiculous. The only benefit to Google being the target of this suit is that if it goes all the way, there is a chance that some of these might be invalidated because at least they have the cash reserves to stand and fight (if they choose to do so).
- writing to your representatives
- donating to the EFF or other organizations
- by not donating another $2k to Apple for a new Mac*, implicitly endorsing these bullshit tactics
- not developing for those platforms (App Store, etc)
Leaving comments here expressing outrage isn't really helping.
- Their time will come and when it does it will be painful.
- Any system that's inherently corrupt is bound to collapse.
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apparently that's what it takes just to enter these dominated markets. which is more than just a little scary.