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The Telecom Digest for August 28, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 205 : "text" Format
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Date: 26 Aug 2012 18:36:38 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case
Message-ID: <20120826183638.31538.qmail@joyce.lan>
>What I found most surprising about this case is that these companies
>don't have cross-licensing arrangements. I thought that was how most
>big companies, each having extensive portfolios of patents, avoided
>zillions of patent-infringement cases among themselves.
Cross-licensing is indeed common, but it's also common to hold back
patents that a company thinks are particularly important.
>Didn't Samsung also counter-sue Apple over patents on the wireless
>technology? Are we still waiting for the verdict on that?
No, the jury ruled against Samsung on all of them.
*Moderator Note: per another submission, Samsung did sue Apple in S. Korea,
and, in -that- case, it was held that Apple did infringe on Samsung patents,
and that Samsung did not copy Apple's "look and feel". According to the
other reportage, the S. Korea ruling came down 'a couple of days' before
the U.S. verdict.
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:45:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case
Message-ID: <k1dgae$3bn$2@reader1.panix.com>
In <barmar-DC8322.10321925082012@news.eternal-september.org> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
[snippeth]
>> That is not a big financial blow to Samsung, one of the world's
>> largest electronics companies. But the decision could essentially
>> force it and other smartphone makers to redesign their products to be
>> less Apple-like, or risk further legal defeats.
>Or just pay licensing fees to Apple.
>What I found most surprising about this case is that these companies
>don't have cross-licensing arrangements. I thought that was how most
>big companies, each having extensive portfolios of patents, avoided
>zillions of patent-infringement cases among themselves.
>Didn't Samsung also counter-sue Apple over patents on the wireless
>technology? Are we still waiting for the verdict on that?
Samsung had a similar lawsuit going on in... South Korea. And
curiously enough, that decision came out a couple of days
prior to the one here in the US.
Oh, and that decision mostly favored Samsung.
[USA Today]
South Korea's Samsung won a home court ruling in its
global smartphone battle against Apple on Friday when
judges in Seoul said the company didn't copy the look
and feel of the U.S. company's iPhone, and that Apple
infringed on Samsung's wireless technology.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-23/apple-samsung-lawsuit/57260602/1
danny "lots of lawyers will get plenty rich here" burstein
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:21:16 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Study says drivers, not cellphones, pose the accident risk
Message-ID: <p06240833cc61e85fc31b@[10.0.1.2]>
Cellphones' role in crashes doubted
Study says drivers, not cellphones, pose the accident risk
By Hiawatha Bray | GLOBE STAFF
AUGUST 27, 2012
Don't blame the technology.
For those who argue that a ban on cellphone use while driving will
make highways safer, there's bad news: People who chat behind the
wheel often drive more aggressively even after they hang up,
according to a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
"The people who are more willing to frequently engage in cellphone
use are higher-risk drivers, independent of the phone," said Bryan
Reimer, associate director of MIT's New England University
Transportation Center. "It's not just a subtle difference with those
willing to pick up the phone. This is a big difference."
Reimer and a team of MIT researchers studied the behavior of 108
Greater Boston drivers. About half acknowledged frequent phone use
when driving; the rest said they rarely used their phones behind the
wheel.
...
http://bostonglobe.com/business/2012/08/26/not-cellphone-but-driver-that-high-risk-not-cellphone-but-driver-that-high-risk/nVKDgqQTnn91287ZZ30v7N/story.html?s_campaign=8315
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