Showing posts with label motorola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motorola. Show all posts
18 April 2012

US Judge Forbids Motorola From Using German Injunction Against Microsoft

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Here's an interesting development in the legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola in Germany that we discussed recently. It seems ...

As Germany Becomes Europe's East Texas, Microsoft Moves Its Distribution Center

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Just as companies often try to file their patent lawsuits in East Texas, so Germany is emerging as a favorite forum for patent litigation i...
15 August 2011

Rotten to the Core

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Back in April, when Apple sued Samsung in the US, I noted that Apple's claims seemed pretty over the top - basically claiming that any r...
10 November 2010

Microsoft Demonstrates why FRAND Licensing is a Sham

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A little while back I was pointing out how free software licences aren't generally compatible with Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminato...
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07 October 2010

Is Microsoft running out of steam?

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Most people have heard about the 18th-century inventor James Watt and his steam engine; not so many know about the way he used patents to st...
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19 November 2007

Poland: Not Just Plumbers

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In the UK the Polish plumber has become a staple figure of merriment, if not fun (after all, nobody wants to make fun of someone as importan...
02 November 2007

Deconstructing the gPhone

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One of the reasons I've been writing about Google's purportedly-imminent gPhone is because of its knock-on effect on the whole GNU/L...
06 February 2007

LiMo Foundation : What's in a Name?

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Impressive line-up here: Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo ...
14 November 2006

Why Sun Mobilised the GPL Now....

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Here's a fascinating analysis of why Sun went for the GPL and why now: In summary, Sun opensourcing Java is all driven by mobile. The t...