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How Much Did Microsoft Pay HTC To Sign The Patent Licensing Agreement?
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| So why would HTC pay Microsoft? They
| wouldnât. What I suspect happened (and
| weâll never know the truth because thereâs
| a non-disclosure agreement in place) is
| that Microsoft paid HTC a large sum of
| money, and then HTC agreed to pay a small
| sum of money per phone sold. Just for the
| argument, assume that Microsoft paid HTC
| $25,000,000.00 for access to HTCâs
| patents, and HTC is to pay Microsoft
| $0.001 per phone soldâ
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/05/19/how-much-did-microsoft-pay-htc-to-sign-the-patent-licensing-agreement/
Microsoft Sues Salesforce, Claims Infringement On Nine Patents
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| Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against
| Salesforce.com, alleging that the CRM
| company is infringing on nine of its
| patents. The move is somewhat surprising,
| as this is only the fourth time that
| Microsoft has sued another company for
| patent violations (though it has been the
| target of plenty of them).
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/18/microsoft-sues-salesforce-claims-infringement-on-nine-patents/
Bogus is one way to describe Microsoft's patent claims against Salesforce.com
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| I purposely did not read Microsoft's
| description of the patents and
| Salesforce.com's alleged violations from
| the 9-page patent infringement lawsuit.
| Instead, I looked over the actual patents,
| reading them as they are and looking at
| them in context of Salesforce.com's
| business, as I understand it. I see huge
| PR value for Microsoft in filing this
| lawsuit, possibly inflicting damage
| against a successful competitor. The
| patent violations are sure to create FUD
| (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about
| Salesforce.com's future business and may
| even cause some customers to look
| elsewhere -- ah, like Microsoft. However,
| I see nothing among the nine patents,
| based on a careful non-lawyerly review,
| that remotely suggests Salesforce.com has
| grossly violated Microsoft intellectual
| property rights.
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http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/20100518/bogus-is-one-way-to-describe-microsofts-patent-claims-against-salesforce-com.htm
Microsoft Sues Salesforce for Patent Infringement
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_sues_salesforce_for_patent_infringement_1.php
Novell Announces SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/novell-announces-suse-linux-enterprise-11-service-pack-1-94237269.html
Novell launches SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-novell-launches-suse-linux-enterprise-11-sp1-/2010/05/19/4798033.htm
Suse Linux gets virtualization, high availability, and desktop boosts
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051910-suse-linux-gets-virtualization-high.html
Brainshare: Novell announce SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Brainshare-Novell-announce-SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-11-SP1-1003631.html
Novell's SLE update adds full KVM support, improved clustering
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Novell-SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-11-SP1-/
SUSE Linux 11 SP1 to deliver Xen 4.0, KVM, Hyper-V support
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/suse-linux-11-sp1-to-deliver-xen-40-kvm-hyper-v-support/6526
Recent:
First, we kill all the patent lawyers
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| Actually, I don't think we should kill all
| the patent lawyers. Some of my best friends
| are patent attorneys -- no, really. But I'd
| happily stick a knife into the American
| patent system.
|
| In the beginning, the U.S. patent system
| was meant to encourage inventors and
| innovation. Abraham Lincoln is reputed to
| have said, "The Patent System added the
| fuel of interest to the fire of genius."
| That was then. This is now.
|
| Today, unless the Supreme Court does the
| right thing and tosses out business
| practice and, by implication, software
| patents with the proper decision in the
| Bilski case, we're stuck with a system
| designed to wreck anyone who actually tries
| to implement his own ideas.
|
| You see, with many software patents there
| is no specific language, no hard code, but
| only descriptions of general processes that
| can be implemented in multiple ways. Now,
| you might think you could avoid patent
| trouble by looking up the appropriate
| patents and not using them. Good luck with
| that.
|
| [...]
|
| This is why Microsoft, despite being the
| loser in some whopping patent lawsuits,
| such as the $200 million-plus it owes i4i
| for violating its patents and the $1.5
| billion it once owed Alcatel-Lucent, is
| happy to threaten other companies,
| especially those that use Linux or open-
| source software, such as Amazon and TomTom
| into licensing agreements.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176257/First_we_kill_all_the_patent_lawyers
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