Comments on: Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary sues Apple over QuickTime and iOS devices

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:31:45 +0000

I note that you’re having a good week Cubert! Glad to see you in action.

By: Snoop dogg

Snoop dogg — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:46:50 +0000

In France, during Halloween they say “treat or retreat”, typical cheese eating surrender monkey mentality

By: japanscott

japanscott — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:44:09 +0000

Exactly my thoughts!

By: Charles De Gaulle

Charles De Gaulle — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:51:29 +0000

That’s c’est la vie.

Merde.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:17:36 +0000

Exactly.

By: Danox

Danox — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:15:35 +0000

Why is Google and Amazon still in the Apple store? If they are competing and suing you (with proxies) why help them?

By: ppctyler

ppctyler — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:19:31 +0000

What is sad is that Acatel-Lucent is all that’s left of Bell Labs. Bell Labs was at one time the one of the biggest innovators, and produced some of the largest number of patents, probably as much as Xerox Palo Alto. Things really went south when Lucent was bought by the French. So goes all the Anerican ingenuity.

We’ll see where this patent suit takes them. I’m not making any judgement right now. It sure would look better if they were turning out patents like they used to be. Well, as the French say, Ce La Vie.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:24:42 +0000

All the lawyers are laughing even harder.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:23:51 +0000

And to which Apple is an IP contributor.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:22:56 +0000

MPT states that “Apple continues to make, have made, use, sell, and offer for sale in the United States, and import into the United States, mobile devices which are capable of encoding and decoding digital video.

Oh really. Ya think? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Desperate.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:17:43 +0000

Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Multimedia Patent Trust has sued many…

Yeah, we know. Old news.
Attack of the submarine patents.
Patent trolling goes on and on and on…

And this patent troll will lose money on their BS lawsuit just as hundreds of others have done before. Have fun with that. You gotta be desperate.

By: Raoul

Raoul — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:54:04 +0000

Alacatel Lucent… Such an old fashion company for which innovation is an unknown word!!

Well they have patents, and after?? What did they do wirh them?? Nothing, keeping them in a desk!

And now they want money, because orhers innovate faster than them!

Next suit will be from prehistoric human descendants against Apple for the use of the wheell long time ago on iPod! And the wheell and its use has to be make under patents!

So sade, to see this french corp. alcatel making no more devices or softwares for the publics as they are lagging long way after innovation!!

This Alcatel corp. So long time a french state company, claiming against innovation as their last innovation is just layoffs and closing factories, and making theit shares value next to 0!!

They want $ on video Codec used by all! Just let them die! Codec is just one so small part of the videos business!!

I just remember orhers … Adobe with flv, realnetworks with real medias or orhers.. U don t want your technologie to be used?? Allright, no problem, we will shift to somerhing else and watch you die., as we did for orhers!

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:09:08 +0000

I can’t believe that this patent isn’t lumped into the h.264 patent pool that Apple is a licensee of.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:04:26 +0000

Tim Cook needed to assess this risk before he engaged in the Samsung pursuit. Careful what you wish for, as word is that Research in Motion are also about to skew the touch to zoom patent issued to Apple and yes drag Apple into Court the they own a far more defined Patent on the same set of gestures dating back to 2005.

All to this to say, that when anyone starts to preach self righteousness, you become a target as you will be challenged.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:18:32 +0000

They might have re-assessed their options in light of the $1 billion award for damages against Samsung.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:11:55 +0000

It makes me wonder why they waited so long because QuickTime has been around for quite a while. Is this company just getting around to notice the patent breach?

By: KenC

KenC — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:10:56 +0000

So, is MPT a non-practicing entity of Alcatel? In other words is their sole purpose acting as a troll?

By: hoomie

hoomie — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:10:49 +0000

Meanwhile, back at the rolodex in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan HQ…

By: AtlantaX

AtlantaX — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:10:15 +0000

ALu is a loser company, run by a bunch of surrender-monkeys. They are failing miserably in the US and starting to slip worldwide. If patent lawsuits are all they have left, they might as well close up shop and return what little value they have to their sorry shareholders.

By: Lordthree

Lordthree — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:07:49 +0000

Yea right. Good luck with that