Xbox 360 ban: Microsoft rejects Motorola settlement

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Adinnieken said:

kanageddaamen said:

Seeing as the ACTUAL courts ruled otherwise, your implication of lack of knowledge may be misplaced.  But I will chock that up to an obtuse opinion that you know better than a judge, and hence are either fairly unintelligent, or and ego-maniac and not worth debating with.

No, the actual courts did not rule otherwise.  The ITC judge ruled that both Microsoft and Motorola were infringed on the other's patents.  Motorola infringed on Microsoft's ActiveSync patent (a non-standards patent) and therefore ruled that Motorola mobile devices should be banned.  As well, the ITC ruled that Microsoft's Windows products and Xbox 360 infringed on Motorola's H.264 and Wi-Fi patent, both standards patents.  The preliminary finding by the ITC judge is that the Xbox 360 should be banned from import, however the full ITC body has yet to make its decision on the matter.  The ban on Motorola products is in effect, as President Obama has issued the order.

The ITC could determine that Motorola failed to license its standards patents under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms.  If they do that, then Motorola will have to go back to the table with more reasonable licensing terms.

I never made any claims over the ban, just that the courts ruled that MS infringed on the patents, which they have.  Again, I do not care for the ban, simply the enforcement of payment for copyright material.  I personally don't find the offer unreasonable from Motorola, but MS must have felt otherwise and that they had more to gain financially from rejecting it than paying it.  We will see how the courts decide finally.

The whole crux of my argument is against the mentality in the thread that MS should pay NOTHING (not saying you said that, but there is certain implication to that fact) and that patent law is somehow damaging to consumers, which I reject.