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| This is what's wrong with America. The legal system in this country needs a major overhaul.
Buy the rights to something and then sue everyone who uses it? Such a lawsuit is not a problem if there were actual rights breached and a company is just trying to get the justice they worked for.... but the business this company is in is just abusing the legal system because they know the cable companies can pay up millions.
And who gets shafted in the end? The customer.
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| said by maartena:Buy the rights to something and then sue everyone who uses it? Such a lawsuit is not a problem if there were actual rights breached and a company is just trying to get the justice they worked for.... but the business this company is in is just abusing the legal system because they know the cable companies can pay up millions. And who gets shafted in the end? The customer. Not true. Many small companies go out of business. Why shouldn't they be allowed to gain at least from the technology they developed?
The CATV companies do NOT innovate. They generally utilize technology that others develop.
The VoIP lawsuits that Verizon have brought are more dubious, and are more for competitive reasons than "meritorious" reasons, than these.
The customer is more often hurt by the abuse of monopoly or dominating company than by some little guy suing. |
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| said by SD6:The CATV companies do NOT innovate. They generally utilize technology that others develop. That's correct, they do not innovate.
They simply pay the bills of the people who do innovate by buying the innovated product.
It's not cost effective for the CableCos to operate their own R&D departments, but if there were no product development, they would have to. The output would be klunky and the consumer would pay for failure and success alike. So the independent guys are good to have around.
Synopsis: There would be reduced innovation without independent developers.
There would be no innovation with the CableCos.
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said by SD6:Not true. Many small companies go out of business. Why shouldn't they be allowed to gain at least from the technology they developed? The CATV companies do NOT innovate. They generally utilize technology that others develop. The VoIP lawsuits that Verizon have brought are more dubious, and are more for competitive reasons than "meritorious" reasons, than these. The customer is more often hurt by the abuse of monopoly or dominating company than by some little guy suing. I agree that some patents are legitimate and they deserve to win. But many of these patents are not specific enough to be enforced and these lawsuit firms try to get money thru blackmail rather than thru any legitimate claims.
The 1/2 of 1% that they want is less money than legal fees would be for many of the smaller firms they sue.
These particular lawsuits are news because of who they are suing this time. Against these foes the patent troll lawsuit firm may just lose. But they clean up on all the small and mid-size firms that can't fight back.
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said by maartena:The legal system in this country needs a major overhaul. Buy the rights to something and then sue everyone who uses it? Such a lawsuit is not a problem if there were actual rights breached and a company is just trying to get the justice they worked for.... but the business this company is in is just abusing the legal system because they know the cable companies can pay up millions. And who gets shafted in the end? The customer. This would be like either Intel or AMD receiving patents for new processor designs and then suing Dell, Gateway, HP, Sony and other computer manufacturers who choose to use them.
What a bunch of morons. |
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BigVe
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How get you get a legal system overhaul when this country is controlled by lawyers etc.? |
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You have a pretty strange view on innovation. |
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said by maartena:The legal system in this country needs a major overhaul. You got that right. And I know which nine jackasses I'd start with . . .
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