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All these intellectual property lawsuits look like an economic loss overall. The laws don’t work as intended if they aimed to encourage innovation
Sure but on the other hand as someone with a pretty recent Apple Watch on my wrist I am very happy whenever Apple suffers a loss and loses money.
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> the price will shoot up drastically as soon as the market is aware of someone Will that still happen if you put in a single order to buy 51% of all the shares at a price a little above the current market value ? That trade will be complete before the market "sees" you are trying to buy a ton.
That’s kind of what I had in mind, I don’t really know if it’s feasible or not but if I had billions of dollars deposited in my Robinhood account just made the order for that many shares, would it not go through?
When we are talking about a massive % of the total share count there simply isn't that many "sell" requests out there for you to take advantage of.
"Masimo detailed how Apple poached its top executives and more than a dozen other employees before later releasing a watch with pulse oximeter capabilities — which measures the percentage of oxygen that red blood cells carry from the lungs to the body — that were patented by Masimo" "Joe Kiani, the chief executive of Masimo, said in an interview that Apple had not engaged in licensing negotiations. Instead, he said t…
It’s so wild that a patent owner is allowed to refuse to sell a license to use the patented technology.
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the same way that Apple's "rounded corners for smartphones" was a patent.
A design patent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent , is different from a patent granted for an invention.
a plurality of emitters configured to emit light, each of the emitters comprising at least two light emitting diodes (LEDs); four photodiodes arranged within the user-worn device and configured to receive light after at least a portion of the light has been attenuated by tissue of the user; a protrusion comprising a convex surface including separate openings extending through the protrusion and lined with opaque mate…
the same way that Apple's "rounded corners for smartphones" was a patent.
Whether you think it is a valid design patent or not is a different question. There is no doubt that the outline of the iPhone was iconic, and Apple was trying to protect that, and Samsung was trying to ape it.
Patents in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10945648B2/en They look identical to me btw? both files on 2020-02 and have title of "User-worn device for noninvasively measuring a physiological parameter of a user". From summary: > light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, a…
Current patents attempt to claim: this thing I figured out is novel and nobody else should copy me.
Many times, they claim this so someone else can't claim it and thus avoid arbitration.
It would be nice if we could also file: this thing I figured out is not novel and is a natural progression to the current state-of-the-art.
I guess the only means of doing this currently is to attempt to invalidate a patent? Or maybe, a whole swath of patents?
There is nothing truly-novel here (IMHO.) This is like a toothbrush patent with a slightly different number of bristles than every other toothbrush patent in order to sell a toothbrush legally.
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It's pretty nontrivial to buy a majority interest in any public company. It's not like you can just spend 1/2 the current market cap to acquire it, the price will shoot up drastically as soon as the market is aware of someone (especially Apple) trying to do it.
As long as the cost is less than what apple makes from the watches annually, it would still be worth it, no?
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Nothing of the sort. How does this statement reject a willingness to license?
That statement very much reads like they aren't willing to license unless they get final say on products using the tech. Which sounds quite unreasonable as a condition for patent licensing.
I'm not depriving the horse of water because the horse doesn't want to drink!