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Forums - Gaming - Import bans not appropriate or helpful... (Motorola v Apple and MS)

Soleron on 07 June 2012
famousringo said:
Soleron said:
Millenium said:

Considering they're both infringing on each others products it's time for them to sit down and make a fair deal that's beneficial for them both.

Or for patent law to be reformed so it's possible to make a smartphone, tablet or console without infringing on defensive, vague patents made by the established players. Go and look at the specific patents being asserted, they're trivial inventions or legally unpatentable ideas.

How could they possibly be "legally unpatentable" if they've A) been granted a patent by the US patent office and B) been tested in a court of law and upheld?

There have been some close Supreme Court decisions on method patents and software patents. If just one or two more SC justices found the other way on some upcoming cases, whole classes of patent would be ruled invalid.

So let me clarify my statement to, "they are unpatentable under several valid interpretations of the current law".



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endimion on 07 June 2012

yeah or change the life cycle of a patent from 14 to 20 years to 7 to 10 years especially on design of new tech becoming standards.... that would drive innovation up big time...