dsister said:
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Probability (or certainty with chinese manufacturers...). Like I mentioned before, with any modern device there are hundreds, sometimes thousands of patents in play. Which ones are enforcable (= we must pay royalties), which ones are weak (= we likely get away with not paying), which ones won't stand (= we certainly won't pay), which ones we didn't even know about when we designed our stuff? It is a mine field, and if you go the safe route by completely considering and finding all patents for your device and get licences, you spend ages and millions for lawyers and your device will not be marketable anymore due to the high prices involved and being too late in the market. I did read the (identical?) LG lawsuit against Sony in th US and for the non-lawer I am, it reads like "please please do us a favour and let us win" (every second paragraph says "we have many Americans working for us", "we have a new factory built in America", "we spend a lot of $$ in America"), and at least one of the four patents reads like "water can be used for drinking". In the end, lawers will cash in and both LG and Sony will have spent tons of money when whatever settlement is agrred upon.
