Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate...Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)
Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate...Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)
Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate...Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale
It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?
From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge.
It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) letter to the IEEE -- the nonprofit organization that sets technical standards for everything from AC/DC converters to Wi-Fi networks --...
Apple shows interest in European patent laws
Apple has delivered a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking for basic principles for that region of the world on patents and their licensing, according to the Wall Street Journal. The letter asks for consistency across ...
Microsoft, Google, and Apple talk up "fair and reasonable" patent license fees
Microsoft today issued a brief statement promising to make "essential patents" available to competitors at fair and reasonable licensing rates, and promised not to sue companies making products that infringe these patents. The ac...
What Motorola wants: 2.25% of Apple’s iPhone sales revenue
A blogger uncovers the $2 billion dispute behind Friday's bizarre back and forth
Source: FOSS Patents
Apple (AAPL) watchers were shocked Friday when the company, in response to a court-ordered injunction, removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its online Apple Store in Germany.
The injunction was suspended before the end of the day -- and the products...
Apple resumes sales of 3G iPhones and iPads in Germany
Earlier today, Apple was forced to remove the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (not the iPhone 4S), and all 3G iPads from its online store in Germany. This injunction was short-lived as Apple appealed and the German court suspended the ban. The company...
Apple Has Already Beat Motorola’s German Injunction Against iPhones And iPad Sales
You know that so-called “permanent injunction” Motorola got against Apple that resulted in Apple pulling all iPhones and iPads short of the iPhone 4S off their online store earlier today? Already overruled, and Germans can once again get their iPhone and iPad on. Slashgear...iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?
Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail
Yanked from the virtual shelves
It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.
First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time, as far as we know, that the company has been forced...
iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?
Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail
Yanked from the virtual shelves
UPDATE: Sales of Apple's iPhones resumed Friday. See here.
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It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.
First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time,...
