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Apple wants Samsung to pay $40 per device for only 5 software patents

6 pointsby FOSSpatentsabout 11 years ago

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mcvabout 11 years ago
<i>&quot;A damages expert will argue on Apple&#x27;s behalf that, if the parties had acted reasonably and rationally in a hypothetical negotiation, Samsung would have agreed to pay $40 -- forty dollars! -- per phone or tablet sold as a total royalty for the five patents-in-suit, which relate to (but don&#x27;t even fully monopolize) the phone number tapping feature, unified search, data synchronization, slide-to-unlock, and autocomplete.&quot;</i><p>I don&#x27;t know where to start. Apple predicting what Samsung would have agreed to; that acting reasonable and rationally, Samsung would have agreed to pay to totally crazy sum; or the patents themselves.<p>What can possibly be innovative about tapping a phone number? How is unified search Apple&#x27;s idea and not some actual search giant&#x27;s? What is innovative about data synchronization? Does Apple do it in a particularly clever and innovative way that Samsung copied? And does every single website also owe Apple $8 per visitor for having autocomplete?