CE settles with acacia

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Jul 4 2003, 05:40 PM
If you're looking out only for yourself, that's not a bad business decision. He wins either way. If the patent is upheld, he no doubt has carved himself out a much better deal than anyone else will get. If the patent is shot down, he's out nothing and didn't spend any money fighting it. Either is an advantage for him over competitors in a market with shrinking margins. You gotta give the devil his due.

From what he's said on GFY, he's still paying to fight it.

I was reading the thread there this AM and in my VERY uneducated-about-this head thought he'd basically bought an insurance policy.

But there is SO much I don't know about the technology, who has it, what makes it different from other internet video stuff, why/when they got a patent on it, etc. that a laypersons take on it may be all wrong.

(and if anyone thinks they CAN explain the technical side of it to me, don't waste your time. My Dad's been trying to explain football downs to me for 30+ years and I still don't get it. )