Ah the sweet irony in the statement from IP Watchdog which states that the decision which "reduces the possibility that a patent holder that has made an IEEE RAND Commitment could hold up implementers of a standard and obtain higher prices" somehow represents a "threat to American-led innovation". The IEEE requested this update to prevent cases such as this one which demanded $2000 per location for any business with a wireless router from ever reaching the courts. Unless you feel that the companies whose business model is to sue people based on exploiting loopholes in existing patent agreements in which case you probably do not agree this is for the best. You can read more over at The Register if the legal document from the DOJ is not up your alley.
"The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has okayed new IEEE standards licensing rules designed to end some of the seemingly-endless lawsuits over standards-essential patents – and the trolls aren't happy."
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- Alibaba Tests Drone Delivery Service In China @ Slashdot
- Samsung announces ePoP all-in-one memory for smartphones @ The Inquirer
- TP-LINK Competition – Win Faster Wireless Technology! @ Kitguru
Decent blow to patent trolls.
Decent blow to patent trolls. Although the US patent system is generally broken, this is a good start.
I become more wary of “patent
I become more wary of “patent troll” coverage, every day. Ever since everyone jumped on the bandwagon of calling the podcasting patent guy a patent troll, when HE WAS THE ACTUAL PATENT ORIGINATOR AND HOLDER and his patent actually didn’t cover “podcasting” and he was actually utilizing the patent system exactly as designed to protect his actual patents that were the result of his actual work.
Adam Carolla and Leo Laporte and others totally lost their shit over that guy, without ever actually bothering to read his patent or the case, after which they would have derived that the patent system is shitty, but this guy was not a patent troll.
I don’t think podcasts are
I don't think podcasts are IEEE approved, which is what this is actually about. Refer to our podcasts of about the same time to hear what we thought of that topic.
It is complete bull when a
It is complete bull when a business buys a wifi router and gets sued when it violates a patent when they did nothing up but firmware updates. Any patent issues should be taken up with company that made the device not end user as any patent license should infer the end user has valid license to use it.
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