“Google chairman Eric Schmidt is currently on a tour of Asia, where he announced the company’s $199 Nexus 7 tablet in Tokyo on Monday. During his announcement, Schmidt found some time to talk about Apple,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.
“Schmidt revealed that while Apple is a ‘very good partner,’ he doesn’t agree with patent wars, and feels they ‘prevent choice’ and innovation,” Bell reports. “Schmidt also revealed that he doesn’t feel some of Apple’s patents should stand.”
Bell reports, “‘Literally patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation and I think that is very bad. We are obviously working through that and trying to make sure we stay on the right side of these issues. So ultimately Google stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars,’ [Schmidt said].”
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Interesting spin about how “patent wars” prevent innovation. Interesting as infringing on a patent intrinsically means you didn’t innovate.
Every ones a bully when you wear a pink cowboy hat and suit Eric, you freaking fagot.
Eric,
I am going to copy Google’s search algorithm and start another company.
I think I will name it GIIGLE.
Won’t charge any advertising fees either, cause my development costs will be paid for by another company (guess who?).
I am going to vote for myself as most innovative company this year. Wohooooo!
I can’t agree with the patent system as it currently stands and on some level I agree with what Schmidt is saying in regards to patents. I don’t exactly agree with his opinion about Apple but if I remove apple from his statements I agree with the basic premise.
Companies and individuals are getting patents for ridiculously broad ‘ideas’ that in many cases are nothing unique. I mean nothing unique in the sense that any developer worth two drops of piss would come up with very similar solutions when presented with the need to solve the same type of ‘problem’.
Lodsys for example has patents on e-commerce and purchasing technologies. Technologies they did not INVENT and really aren’t even inventions. opening an HTTPS connection to a website and sending over a credit card number is not an invention, that is a solution that rides on top of the already invented protocols and network layers of the internet. As our president would say “You didn’t build that” – ha
There are many companies besides that have patents like this and its not innovation, its not being creative and pushing new boundaries its basically being a parasite on the industry and charging fees for standard issue development solutions that any developer trying to make a living will face and surprise surprise they’ll come up with your ‘invention’ without ever seeing your patent or hearing your name because its flat out that simple and obvious.
That is a problem and on that side of things I agree with Google, apple or any company who is fighting off retarded infringement cases for things like “scrolling selection lists” or “a method and process for processing in app payments”
Now that we are a first to file country its only going to get worse. Before long you won’t be able to innovate anything without paying multiple parties a bunch of fees because they had the money to file a piece of paper before you at the patent office.
Software patents should be denied unless the software in the patent application has a direct connection requirement to a unique and original piece of hardware or machine. If the software is not required to make it run, or its software with no hardware to go with it – DENIED.
If your ‘invention’ uses industry and government established protocols for network transport – i.e: HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET etc. etc. then your patent is denied and you can use the already established copyright laws to protect your work.
The patent trolling would be DOA and companies like Apple that actually fuse software to hardware would still be in a position to protect their innovation.
Companies like Samsung and *cough* google could still be hauled to court and in the end they would have a lot less ammo to fight back with when it comes down to real innovation.
I’m done ranting about this and really i could go on all night. This entire industry will be wrapped up in court fighting over stupid graphics effects and basic math when some other country passes us and takes the lead in technology one day. You can iCal that shit because it will happen.
Hey Eric T Mole. u do have some nerve. Talking about “Apple is a ‘very good partner,’ he doesn’t agree with patent wars, and feels they ‘prevent choice’ and innovation”
Listen Android is a Stolen Product and u & ur Company will Rue the day When u Stabbed (Steve) in his Back.
Google: A very CORRUPT partner.
Google stands for copycat like Microsoft. That’s the only reason they accuse Apple of being a Patent bully because everything they’ve done was copied from Apple.
The RANT of the lazy and the plagiarists:
blah doesn’t agree with patent wars blahblah ‘prevent choice’ and innovation, blah doesn’t feel some of Apple’s patents should stand blahblah that is very bad blahblahblah stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars blah.
FACT: There is no innovation without RELIABLE PATENT LAW. You invent it, you benefit from it, not anyone else.
If patent law is broken and patents are usurped, what you get is China: Criminal Nation where you invent it, EVERYONE owns it, you don’t benefit, killing off all incentive to do anything actually innovative. Yeah, we want that! Commie idiots Schmidt and Samsung! Bright idea! Dicks.
So dear Eric T. Mole:
Please STFU and cut the Samsung-style WHINING. You’ve been caught RED HANDED stealing Apple IP and you’re gonna PAY FOR YOUR CRIME. Sorry you don’t like that. The fact that you don’t like that makes you an UNREPENTANT CRIMINAL, which I’m sure will be taken into account during your sentencing.
The Google Manifesto:
DO EVIL and get away with it by calling it ‘innovation’.
Hey! That sounds familiar!
M I C R O S O F T
Yes, I forgot a closing italics code marker, again. Apologies. It’s 3:17 AM here. zzzzz WHU?! zzzzzzz 😉
Love it when the Fandroids talk about limiting choice…
Hey man, don’t limit my choice to buy cheap stolen stuff!
Eric Schmidt is full of shit. In the famous photo of Jobs and him having coffee together a couple of years ago, Jobs leans over to Schmidt and says, “You know, Eric, I’m dying soon. but you will have to go on lying until your dying dray. Have fun with that.”
Eric, you and your company are thieves, you sat on Apple’s board and ripped off ideas from Apples innovations, Now you find yourselves accused of ripping off patents, what is your defense? You call your accuser a bully! You sir should not to be trusted on a board again! You personify what is wrong with some business people today… No ethical standards! Your company has (had) a Moro of “Do no evil”. I guess that you did not ‘get that memo’! We will give your claims all the attention they deserve… Oh look a squirrel!
Duuuuh… Of course patent wars limits costumers choice. But what is right is
Not for them to decide. What is patents if you don’t protect them? They bought Motorola for the patents. They might not strike first like Apple but they sure will and are using Motorolad patents to strike back and tries to get Apple’s products banned. How is that not limiting consumers choice? Apple take the heat for defending what it says is its innovation and IP. Google has no innovation so they hae to buy patents to sue. Who is really the troll. At least Apple is suing with their own granted patents.
Schmidt better pray to whatever, that Apple never points itself in the direction of developing a search engine. After looking at Apple’s success rate with other areas of innovation, implementation, and attention to detail, Google would be steamrolled!
As opposed to being a thief?
Why don’t they simply do original work. They are smart people and can develope their own cool stuff. The Android team must feel like they are being used for plagiarism. How demeaning.