![]() ![]() So far, Android partners have avoided a finding that they breached their contracts or violated antitrust law in asserting standard-essential patents. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison, Wisconsin, endorsed Robart’s ruling, concluding that Apple is a third-party beneficiary of Motorola’s agreements with the standard-setting bodies and therefore Motorola must license Apple its intellectual property on reasonable terms. District Judge James Robart sided with Microsoft in holding that Motorola’s agreement with standard-setting bodies in the United States and Europe require it to license its standard-essential patents to third parties, including Microsoft.Įarlier this month, U.S. Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals demolished Motorola’s argument that it was entitled to a licensing fee of 2.5 percent of iPhone sales based on Apple’s alleged infringement of a single standard-essential patent. Meanwhile, standard-essential patents have taken a beating in smart-device litigation in the United States. At the end of June, the Federal Trade Commission joined the fray, issuing subpoenas on Motorola’s licensing demands, while Bloomberg reported the Justice Department began investigating Samsung for the same alleged misuse of standard-essential patents. In April, complaints by Microsoft and Apple prompted the European Union to open an antitrust investigation of Motorola’s demands for licensing fees. ![]() ![]() Those Motorola patents, as well as Samsung's standard-essential intellectual property, were supposed to give Google and its Android partners leverage against Microsoft MSFT.O and Apple in the patent wars, creating a stalemate.īut for Google and its Android partners, the last year has raised a lot of questions about the power of standard-essential patents in the smart-device litigation. Last year's conventional wisdom was that after Apple and Microsoft teamed up to lead the coalition that acquired Nortel's wireless tech patents, Google countered effectively with the Motorola deal. ![]() Everyone has to use them, which is why holders of standard-essential patents must agree to license their intellectual property on fair and non-discriminatory terms. That is the latest indication those patents aren’t the strong hand Google had sought.Įssential patents are adopted by the bodies that set international standards for developing technology. The federal jury found that Apple hadn’t infringed those supposedly standard-essential patents, which means that they weren’t essential after all. The company and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr also turned back Samsung’s counterclaims, including assertions that Apple infringed two patents that Samsung said are essential to standard wireless technology. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/FilesĪpple AAPL.O scored big on Friday in its offensive against Samsung 005930.KS, with a $1.05 billion damages verdict and a finding of wilful infringement that could lead to three times as big an award. So, not having hard reset was incovenient for me when using Apple IIgs emulation because it meant I had to manually add the disk image(s) to apple2gs.ini before I launched MESS, you follow? I much prefer to mount the ones I need using the internal MESS menu system then hard reset rather then deal with the ini file to choose my disk images before I launch MESS.īy the way, I'm loving now having the ability to use hard drives in IIgs emulation.People walk by the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto in this file photo taken March 16, 2012. With Apple IIe emulation, this isn't an issue it logs the images in apple2ee.ini so that they're automatically mounted the next time I launch MESS. For some reason (possibly my ignorance of how to use MESS) in Apple IIgs emulation when I mount disk image(s) while MESS is running using the TAB menus, it doesn't record those disk images in the apple2gs.ini file so that they'll be mounted again automatically if I close and then reopen MESS. So, I currently only use MESS for Apple IIe and Apple IIgs emulation. Just curious: why was hard reset your blocker? ![]()
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