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QuentinCallaghan ( QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz )  to Technology · 3 years ago

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

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

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QuentinCallaghan ( QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz )  to Technology · 3 years ago
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Alphabet's Google violated a software developer's patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.
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    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.

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      Exactly. That’s not an invention, and “using” your absurdly uninnovative idea that no intelligent person could possibly consider granting a patent for doesn’t make you not a patent troll.

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        Pinch to zoom?

        Rectangular screen?

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