Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
Eastern District of Texas: The one-stop forum-shopping choice of patent trolls everywhere.
Quite literally the opposite of patent trolling. The company invented something. Acquired a patent. Tried to sell a license to google. Google left the negotiating table. And then not long after introduced a product that fulfilled all of the requirements to be protected by the patent licensing they hadn't paid for.
I hate patent trolls. These are not patent trolls. These are people the patent system is meant to protect. These are people who developed a product and wanted compensation for all the time and money they spent developing it. And they got it 10 years later, and probably didn't get as much total as they could have if Google hadn't fucked them over
So they 'invented' moving video from a small device to a large device in 2010? That's a dumb patent and they are trolls. I hate google, but patents like that are stupidly vague and stifle progress.
Depends on what exactly was covered in the patent. The article only says
Which is vague and an obvious bogus patent. Prior art exists in both the digital and analogue space
These aren't really patent trolls, though. They made a technology, patented it and produced a product. Google met with them, but decided not to pay for the patent owner's technology and made their own instead.
"Made a technology"
Did they actually make anything, or did the CEO just patent an idea without ever putting it in production?
Because latter would be the textbook description of patent trolls. An idea is just an idea, if you can't execute it, the patent should be null and void.
On another note I have to say that such an obvious solution of "moving content from a small screen to the big screen" should hardly be patentable. It's quite literally just RPC, which has been in use in various shapes and forms for over 60 years.
Big tech are biggest trolls out there.
Are they still trying to patent a rectangular screen? Or pinch to zoom?