bux "You are really trying to split hairs since the whole point I was making was the same invention is patented multiple times so the 800 patents referred to in the press release are not 800 separate inventions but that the same inventions are patented in multiple countries. Do you disagree with that?"
Europe calls GSM a "technology". We would call it a bunch of pieces put together to form a platform. such "standard setting" by countries has given countries the right to come in and steal small companies' technologies, including Q's (although Q has played their cards better - view the recent Korean situation in which eight of Q's patents were "disallowed" - why? looks to me like the Korean Institute simply claimed, again "standard setting" arguments - awarding some to Motorola, others to the Institute - ge who would have guessed - and Samsung).
IDC's technology was stolen from it in the same manner; first by Motorola who played unwittingly into the hands of ERICY who was instrumental in the set-up of the GSM platform. Had Motorola played out with IDC, both Motorola and IDC would have had significant controlling interest in the European GSM platform today. Instead Motorola got dumb and greedy, decided to split hairs (as you say over "complimenting technolgies" as opposed to actual "patents"), and in the end got screwed plenty by ERICY (you don't hear about that part - behind closed doors Motorola is as peoed with ERICY over GSM/TDMA as it is with Qualcomm over CDMA).
IDC's attorney's could find a slew of disgruntled Mot executives over ERICY. But; what Mot thought they were winning over IDC, they ending up losing 2X as much over ERICY.
You can call it technologies or patents or platforms - it's partially semantics; but all these "semantics" and divisions have been developed by telco attornies. Thus, 800 patents are 800 patents, even if some describe similar characteristics in opposing countries (we all know this), enough differences exist in the various platforms to which the technology applies such that 800 remains such.
the recent ITU effort will be the first of it's kind. a new world order.
interestingly, we also have the Korean Institute claiming that THEY developed the original TDMA tranmsission alogorithms! (whatever - even though IDC has patents up their ying in Korea describing the technology in question - there is no dispute here, though, since Korea hasn't been a TDMA market) |
