"Apparently, Google thinks it can get better returns on $4.5 billion by paying lawyers to defend Android."
Of Google's failure to obtain the Nortel patents, Larry Dignan writes Apparently, Google thinks it can get better returns on $4.5 billion by paying lawyers to defend Android.
Interesting issue, is it cheaper to buy "bad" patents or pay money to invalidate them? The new patent reform would offer a sliding scale, including re-exams, PGRs (aka oppositions) and finally litigation.
Dignan also noted:
Google wasn’t going to cure all of its Android IP problems with Nortel’s patents, but it would have acquired one nice line of defense. Losing Nortel’s patents—even at the ridiculous $4.5 billion price tag—may come back to haunt Google and Android.
***Further to the comment below, LBE thinks the issue of truly "bad" patents can be adequately addressed by current mechanisms of re-examination. LBE thinks that the (proposed) ADDED level of post-grant review (PGR, aka opposition) is so "un-Deming" as to be laughable. Extra funds, if any become available, should go into resources for examination.
Interesting issue, is it cheaper to buy "bad" patents or pay money to invalidate them? The new patent reform would offer a sliding scale, including re-exams, PGRs (aka oppositions) and finally litigation.
Dignan also noted:
Google wasn’t going to cure all of its Android IP problems with Nortel’s patents, but it would have acquired one nice line of defense. Losing Nortel’s patents—even at the ridiculous $4.5 billion price tag—may come back to haunt Google and Android.
***Further to the comment below, LBE thinks the issue of truly "bad" patents can be adequately addressed by current mechanisms of re-examination. LBE thinks that the (proposed) ADDED level of post-grant review (PGR, aka opposition) is so "un-Deming" as to be laughable. Extra funds, if any become available, should go into resources for examination.
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 5:55 AM
1 Comments:
Indeed, the question whether to fight legal battles to invalidate bad patents or anyway pay for them is - especially in the light of Microsoft v I4I - an interesting one.
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