damndl0ser on 11 May 2009
| wholikeswood said: Makes you wonder though - if they had just built their own software, they could have avoided burning $388mil for no reason. |
Actually they built their own software, it was just apparently to similar to someones patent. If they would have just bought it, then they wouldn't be having this problem.
A lot of these so called companies just buy up patents that they think may be usefull in the future. When someone comes along with a similar tech, they sew for damages and make millions on something they probably have little $, time, or investment in. I think they are called patent farms. I am not sure if that was the case here, but I know Sony, M$, and Nintendo have all been hit by these patent farms in the past.
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