http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/qualcomm-and-blackberry-back-google.html
Qualcomm and BlackBerry back Google against Judge Posner and Apple on FRAND patents
There have been new filings supported by these four groups:
-BSA | The Software Alliance (supports Judge Posner and Apple)
-Qualcomm (opposes Judge Posner, supports Google)
-BlackBerry (officially supports neither party, but clearly opposes Judge Posner and substantively sides with Google)
Qualcomm recently filed a support of reversal of Judge Posner's FRAND decision. Qualcomm has huge clout in this industry, as they have the largest network of SEP eomployees. Qualcomm has been all over supporting several different groups but has more recently sided with Apple.
Blackberry on the other side of this is trying to stay neutral but opposes Judge Posner so thus supports Google.
This article is very evident that this patent landscape isn't just one company against another but it is coalitions competing with each other. This will hurt further positive coalitions among these companies in the future and limit the products we get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMmsCdqzrM
It honestly just seems that in this example, one company may win one ruling that puts them a step forward, but every loss puts them five step back. That's really hard to swallow if you are a company like Blackberry struggling to survive.
ReplyDeleteyup you never know – one day you might be suing each other but the next day you might be writing documents to support each other because of another common rivalry.
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