Nokia gives warning to ASUS and Google that the Nexus 7 infringes on wireless patents

6. rnk.khch posted on 02 Jul 2012, 18:48 25 2

Because they are not Nokia!!! They only think about filling their pockets with cash!!!

10. Ravail posted on 02 Jul 2012, 19:26 9 14

Umm im sorry, however, i must say.. Isnt the point of a "Business" to make as much cash as possible?

25. rnk.khch posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:09 17 0

Yes, but I believe in ethical and respectful business. And I can't stand that these companies blatantly ignore the patent laws and just do whatever they like.

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32. ChiX017 posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:57 11 0

theirs a difference when it gets personal and greed sets in

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49. daniel_bargs posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:48 4 2

because they are Nokia.

if this is Apple, you will be sued right away.
if this is Nokia, they will warn u first then if you dont talk with them... they'll take action.

i prefer Nokia's move. its like child and parent relationship... when your child breaks a vase, you should not slap them right away... you should tell them to be careful next time

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15. Astreo posted on 02 Jul 2012, 19:48 10 6

Uhh...what do you think Nokia is doing ? filling their pockets with cash from all those payments lol.

27. rnk.khch posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:11 10 1

Yes, but that's because they hold those patents. Similarly, they pay for patents that belong to other companies. They have always been honest and straightforward with the laws. It's not Nokia culture to cheat!

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13. Otterbox (banned) posted on 02 Jul 2012, 19:45 7 15

Because the Nexus 7 isn't released. Samsung released numerous devices that violated numerous patents though they never paid royalties for them.

21. frydaexiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 20:33 5 2

You're really giving my favourite phone accessory provider a really bad name...

23. Otterbox (banned) posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:05 2 12

Samsung gave themselves a bad name. I'm assuming you are referring to Samsung, right?

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28. frydaexiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:13 6 2

I'm starting to think there's something wrong with the phone functions of the iPhone. I think it's emitting some radiation and frequency that screws up the brain. Almost all the Apple supporters here are either delusional or just dumb trolls, there's only like what? 2 Apple fans who aren't brainwashed and are willing to participate in an active discussion instead of making it an argument by sprouting nonsense and false crap. Too bad they aren't that active, I suppose because they actually have a life.

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39. ilia1986 posted on 02 Jul 2012, 23:01 0 4

Absolutely. I am even an Android fan who uses an iPhone (unlikely to change soon as eco situation got worse).

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26. groupsacc posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:10 4 1

Royalties for rounded corners? LOL

42. SherlockHolmes posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:21 2 1

See Nokia is really Smart here !!
Nokia will have to waste money on filling and fighting the injunction against Google and Asus and in-turn if they won they can just ban the Tablet !! And this ban on Nexus tablet wont help Nokia even to a small extent as they do not make Tablets !!
So Nokia asked to make a deal so that they can get Royalty from Google and Asus and fill their pockets !!

11. skymitch89 posted on 02 Jul 2012, 19:33 5 0

The article mentions that "Nokia says that 40 companies pay them for a license to use the technology", so I would assume that device manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, and Motorola are included in that license, and would therefore not need through Google.

20. Astreo posted on 02 Jul 2012, 20:31 3 0

Maybe but remember that Google decided to keep their mobility sector away from their OS if i remember correctly.

41. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 00:56 0 2

at least they are nice to ask them to pay up first, and not taking them straight to Lucy Koh..

35. babyk posted on 02 Jul 2012, 22:13 1 0

good idea

36. smartphone posted on 02 Jul 2012, 22:14 4 0

This is not a pointless patent. Apple paid 600m $ for infringing them its not like they are going after silly innovations like slide to unlock.
Patent licensing is a legitimate business.

44. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:29 1 0

I would say that Nokia should go ahead with this patent.. as much as i hate patent litigations, but if the patents are real and not some vague, generalised ideas that have been around since rock age, then go ahead.. I mean, many OEMs have paid for the licence, why not Google and Asus? Just pay up, and all will be settled..

61. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 03 Jul 2012, 12:07 0 0

Fair enough. However, I just worry that in this day and age, for someone to start going this way can easily lead them to becoming sue-crazy like Apple...

63. TROLL posted on 03 Jul 2012, 16:56 0 0

Sad to hear that..... why? What happened?

68. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 03 Jul 2012, 19:33 0 0

Well, its complicated... really a whole life-time in the making, thus far. It just mostly all culminated in the last year or two.

Well, since you asked, I'll try to keep this short(er)...

Always had mental illnesses and disabilities since I was a child... I managed to go into regular school classes with most children my age, though, thanks to my parents really fighting for me and insisting that I was worthy of regular classes. Anyway, that helped me to get into college. A very decent one, in fact, where I could get a degree in my passions, physics and math. I got into fundamental particle physics, got to do a lot of research with the department and faculty, but eventually I ran out of money, and my health got a lot worse. I ended up having to leave before I could finish a degree.

A few months later, I met a lady who I fell in love with. After a year of dating, we got engaged and married a few months after that. This is where things took a serious wrong turn... for lack of a better term, my wife turned out to be a total harpee. After enduring physical and emotional abuse, her dreadful spending and debt acrual habits, and her adulterous activities, for three years, I could not safely live with her any more. I got a divorce, and in order to avoid her putting a two-year hold on the process, I agreed to accept most of the debt and abandon most of my possessions... so I was free of her in 7 months instead. I still had my last job at that point, but a year and a half later I was cut loose without any unemployment benefits (they claimed safety violations... thus, termination with cause, and ineligible for unemployment benefits). I searched for a new job for six months, unsucessfully, and then became very ill.

Turned out to be bone cancer, making me the fifth family member to get any form of cancer in that year (no history of cancer in our family ever before that). I fought it, and with the help of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, I survived my way into remission... I was one of four cancer survivors in our family that year, although two of us didn't make it.

Around this same time, I finally neared the completion of the process to file for bankruptcy (result of the marriage and divorce), and once my cancer treatments were over, and I could think clearly again, I finished that process. In May this year I received my Chapter 7 discharge, a clean bill of health (cancer-remission and unrestricted work-approval), and began officially looking for work again. I have been unemployed for 18 months now, without any benefits aside from Medicaid, and it is very difficult to find a job around here these days, especially with medical benefits which I really really need.

All I can say is... thank goodness my parents still tolerate having me around after all this time being back at home...

18. microsoftnokiawin posted on 02 Jul 2012, 20:21 2 0

this is about a specific kind of wifi

45. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:45 0 0

maybe this is specific to Google, as Asus is only the chosen OEM for the Nexus.. So it is directed at Google, who has not paid for the licence, but in the process Asus also gets involved since they know that Google should pay for the licence but didn't pay instead..

46. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:45 1 1

Amen to that!

19. parkwaydr posted on 02 Jul 2012, 20:22 4 4

Source or get out.

24. frydaexiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:06 4 2

WTF where the hell did you pull that this time? Apple just went straight to trying to ban it. Anyway if they did, Samsung wouldn't pay up because they didn't infringe anything, Apple is just trying to juice money out of Samsung just because they're luring customers away.

29. KingKurogiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:20 3 3

if Apple was going to be cooperative why do you think their recent talks with Samsung fell through the roof? :P

51. taco50 (banned) posted on 03 Jul 2012, 02:02 3 1

Talks failed because Samsung knows it can't compete without copying Apple.

52. matrix_neo posted on 03 Jul 2012, 02:23 2 2

Your such an idiot sheep!!! Do you think only apple can make innovation?! You always generalized samsung a copyist. Why your apple products are not free of copying and worst is stealing ideas. I'm sure you'll ask for proof, my answer is same with your answer, google it!!! Apple is afraid of competition not samsung, if samsung can compete why they enter mibile business?! Apple only started 5 years ago, that time samsung already selling phones. Stop writing nonsense comments, you have no other reason to defend your godly apple other than copying. Go back to farm, you need more grass to eat so that your brain can think rightly and with sense.

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64. TROLL posted on 03 Jul 2012, 16:59 0 0

Lmfao

That was really funny

Go back to urge farm....

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53. KingKurogiii posted on 03 Jul 2012, 02:27 2 1

yeah, i'm sure that's why Apple is trying to get a ban on the Galaxy Nexus using a silly search patent. that really shows the world how much Samsung is really copying Apple.

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59. remixfa posted on 03 Jul 2012, 09:09 1 1

nah, samsung just doesnt have the army of mindless morons that will champion everything they do good or bad.

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62. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 03 Jul 2012, 12:16 1 0

taco... you keep calling it a "copy" when you keep defining it as nothing like a copy. A "copy" is an identical reproduction of the original with identical quality, which you claim that Samsung cannot make because theirs is so horrible. A "counterfeit", on the other hand, is simply made to look like the original, but is generally not nearly as good or reliable. If you would stop calling it a "copy", and start calling it a "counterfeit" instead, which is actually more consistent with your alleged portrayal, then at least you would stop grating on my nerves so much, and although you would still be disagreed with by many here, at least you could be better equipped to actually make your own case a little more sensibly. The other thing is that you would be better served by asking for criminal legal action over the "counterfeiting", rather than money suits over "copying", which you and gallito say are worthless to Apple because they already have soooooo much money...

You can't say I never tried to help you out here...

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65. TROLL posted on 03 Jul 2012, 17:03 0 0

TRUE.... TOTALLY AGREE.

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47. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:46 2 1

prove or GTFO..

48. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:48 0 1

obviously..

don't you know that if you sue first you will get sued by Apple? they did patent the heck out of "Suing first before peaceful negotiation"..

31. KingKurogiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 21:45 0 0

so what's your point? that everything revolves around Apple?

40. gallitoking posted on 03 Jul 2012, 00:46 4 0

at least the cellphone worlds does.. look at al the haters always on apple articles. 2 on Android...

54. KingKurogiii posted on 03 Jul 2012, 02:30 0 0

yeah, it probably does on tech blogs but i wouldn't say that Google couldn't tie their shoes without wondering what Apple would do.

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38. KingKurogiii posted on 02 Jul 2012, 22:38 0 1

nah, Nokia would've been crushed by the weight of the other OEMs. with WP they can find a nice comfort zone to recover from the last few years in.

50. bayusuputra posted on 03 Jul 2012, 01:52 0 0

who knows maybe after the recovery period? both WP and Android?

55. KingKurogiii posted on 03 Jul 2012, 02:31 0 0

maybe but i doubt it. they belong to Microsoft now...

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