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When you lobby a standards organization to have your patented technology become part of a standard (like 3G cellphone communications) you pledge to license it at a reasonable rate.
If Shamesung would attempt something as stupid as you suggest (charging outrageously for SEP’s) would land in court not (just) with Apple but with governments & standards regulators, to which it pledged FRAND status (of the patentets) during their push to have them included in the standard.
For instance Apple (successfully) pushed to have it’s sim design (most of it anyway) declared as “the” new standard or cell phones. It has now pledged those patents to Fair reasonable and non discriminatory licensing. It can’t now turn around and try to charge $500 per license to Samesung. (because shamesung HAS to license to make a cellphone compatible with the rest of the world. That is what standards are for.

That is why Samesung and Moto (via google) are so pathetic trying to leverage standards essential patents (SEP’s) The companies had to agree to reasonable licensing (FRAND) as a part of petitioning to have their patents incorporated into the standard.

I am writing to you as I would an 8 year old because you appear very confused, and truly don’t seem to understand.

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Too bad ther are all related to refrigerators.

There are literally thousands of patents that go into a standard like 4G LTE.

“4G LTE” isn’t a simple “standard” in the sense of 220V electricity, or a certain grade of fuel that refineries have to comply with, or standard sizes of thread on screws or bolts, etc.

This is a very complex technology, and lots of companies have contributed pieces of the puzzle to make a platform that makes interoperability of devices possible.

So, Samsung has like 4% of the patents, something like that. Yet, it wants to charge Apple an exorbitant rate that no other licensee is ever charged for ALL the technology.

It has fastened on 2.5% of the total retail price of the ENTIRE iPhone, when the LTE chip is a minor part, and Samsung has maybe 4% of the IP in that one part. There is no precedence for this (no successful precedence — of course Motorola is trying the same thing with Apple).

Samsung thinks that it is not fair that the iPhone is successful, and it thinks it can get away with this because it says it only takes “a single bullet to kill”! IOW, if not for Samsung’s 4%, LTE wouldn’t work at all.

Basically, Samsung is trying to hold Apple to ransom. It’s highway robbery, pure and simple. And the Korean Government is supporting it. Which is why there may be political repercussions. You can’t have “standards” and have this kind of insane activity going on.

I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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Florian reminds me of the kind of guy who hires a carpenter to remodel his house and then tries to tell the real expert how the job should be done. The guy is a toolbox.

Quoted by news and tech outlets? The same ones everyone here claims are morons whenever an apple story hits the wire? lol.

I stand by my statement. The man has no credentials in law.

So yea- you and Joe the grocer will be quoted as frequently by the press.

These guys are getting cleaned out in court, they are going to pull out all the stops and do whatever they can to turn the tide. It doses not matter that suing over FRAND patents might land them in more trouble later, they are short term thinkers.

The dude is a blogger. Only the truest of morons hire bloggers, geniuses like Oracle who then go on to get their @sses handed to them in court

A typical Fandroid idiot without a clue hard at work to spill out his irrational hate against Apple while completely ignoring all facts. Born in hell pits of like minded fandroid idiots these Google minions circle jerk to find the stupidest argument against Apple. The stupidest wins the honour to enter an Apple focused forum and die as a miserable troll. A sad life.

What YOU don’t understand and cannot seem to fathom is that when under FRAND and the direction that Samsung took – THEY GAVE UP their rights legally to an outright ban of their own IP. Shucks, you are in bad company with Samsung! They can’t seem to comprehend that either!

Your point makes sense to honest people, but not Koreans.