“Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman, has criticised Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion for spending richly on patents rather than innovating,” David Gelles reports for The Financial Times. “His criticisms come a week after those companies beat Google in the bidding for a collection of strategically vital patents from Nortel that cover wireless, 4G, data networking, internet and semiconductor technologies.”
MacDailyNews Take: Innovating. Is that anything like completely reshaping entire industries based on transformative patented IP only to see a bespectacled mole attempt to steal it in order for his own company to profit? Why was Google interested in Nortel’s patents if not to bolster their own weak portfolio in the face of umpteen lawsuits alleging theft of patented IP in Android?
Gelles reports, “‘I’m worried and or disappointed that we’ve gotten to this point in the industry,’” Mr Schmidt said.”
MacDailyNews Take: You’d better be worried, π boy.
Gelles reports, “Mr Schmidt signalled that Google would not be shy about acquiring other patent portfolios at reasonable prices, while building out its own holdings. ‘Now that the value of patents appears to have increased a great deal based on these data points, there are lots of people that have patents that are available,’ Mr Schmidt said. ‘We have a lot of patents. If the answer is tonnage, I think we’ll be fine.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Eric T. Mole is “disappointed,” but not enough to preclude his company from attempting to accomplish the same so-called “disappointing” actions in the future. Hypocrite.
Google doesn’t have a lot of patents that matter for Android. That is their exact problem.
The answer isn’t “tonnage,” mole. The answer is: Do you own work. Don’t steal others’ IP and then try to fix it later by buying up other company’s patents for protection.
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