Google use bikes patent down apple: want to charge 2% patent fees

According to "fortune" magazine reported online edition, in reference to the look and feel of the iPhone based on the Android platform development, Google's not satisfied, today, the company by buying more trying to the MOTOROLA mobile patents, request every sales a apple iPhone will pay the highest 2.25% of patent fees.

Google to the national electrical and electronic engineers association ((IEEE, for the AC/DC converter to Wi-Fi network, the technical standards set the non-profit organization) letters after exposure, caused uproar.

Apple, Microsoft had called for the enterprise, IEEE members submitted in patent technology as an industry standard application should be adhering to the "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" (FRAND requirement of the license terms.

FOSS Patents of Florida Ann muller (Florian Mueller) to study the content of the application documents, found that the content of the document the third paragraph in the fundamental key changes. This section shows that Google was the requirement of "irrevocable", Google through the purchase of MOTOROLA and its 17000 patents, MOTOROLA will require apple each sales a smart cellphone iPhone pay 2.25% of the patent fees.

To this, apple to a European court appeal, says MOTOROLA requirement is unreasonable or unfair, and completely discriminatory.

John Stuart mill to the point agrees: "product sales price of 2.25% for patent fees a complete departure from the concept of member IEEE FRAND terms, also do not conform to the industry practices".

In the industry insiders opinion, 2.25% of rate seems to not high, but if from the following Angle consideration, there will be another sort of ideas: the European telecommunications standards institute storage database, with a standard 4956, involving 175 of companies of 117964 patents. If rivals each design a compatible devices will have to pay 2.25% patent fees of words, the development of the industry will be stalled.

If Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) still here, that faced with Google latest provocation, if you can imagine how he will evaluation: Google stole from apple patent technology, so as to build up the first Android framework, but apple did not apply for the technology to become the industry standard. If you want to create a and the core of the intellectual property patent equivalent, at least dates back to the pager era, at that time, MOTOROLA to all in the industry provides fair use, sharing opportunities. Google now behavior, has become a "brazen" pronoun.

The pan more daily, Grenoble plug (MG Siegler) points out, in Google acquisition MOTOROLA plans before exposure, Google's chief legal counsel David d be DE (David Drummond) have been at the blog published an article titled "when Android is a patented against war object" article, he does not support for each device patent fees charged the behavior: a smart cellphones involved about 250000 patents, our competitors trying to raise taxes the way the cost of Android devices, thus weakening the competitiveness of the Android manufacturers. In the face of the challenge, the Android manufacturers not through establishing new features or introducing new equipment to improve the competitiveness of the way, but the action of the means to fight back.