Ah yes, Huawei, that well known adherent to patent agreements.

phatfish 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Patents just embed western monopolies and cost everyone except the sovereign wealth funds and private equity that own everything in the west.

Someone has to tear it down, and it's not going to come from within. No balls on this side.

	▲	zoobab 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here in Europe, the Unified Patent Court just rubberstamped software patents with a smartwatch decision, saying adding a button makes the whole thing patentable, even though it's only software. Like FFII.org predicted in 2006: https://ffii.org/ "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalize software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a central Unitary patent court (UPC), which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators." Not to mention the judges in that court are part time working for Nokia or Airbus.

vincnetas 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You know, at this scale law, is more like suggestion if benefits of not following it are better.

Apple ordered to pay $5.7bn after losing vibration tech patent suit (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6je85n2vyleo)

You can ask AI to summarise the list of when for example apple ignored patents. I get 16 cases.

dudisubekti an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a strange sarcasm, nobody's forcing Qualcomm to do this.

whatever1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

QC will send them a sad emoji if their patents are violated in China.

	▲	jeffreygoesto an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They will be shocked. SHOCKED.