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Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Not to defend the gigacorp who either didn't look for or didn't care to pay for tech that someone already created and they ended up using in a product, parralel development happens and it could be an oversite, but non-practicing entities are leeches of the highest order.
Will have to read in on the nature of the case more to see what was used and who got paid here, but groups that just sit around on a bunch of shakey over-broad patents with no intent to actualy implement them in any meaningful way need to have them stripped. All they do is hold up developments in the hope of getting a payout with no benefit to society.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/jury-orders-google-to-pay-339m-for-patent-infringing-chromecast/
For a bit more technical readout on the nature of the case, this does sound pretty fishy as a claim. The party getting damages has no product and the patents are all kind of hand-wavey 'make one device tell a server to give a command to another device' in nature. Of course the case was handled in TX too which has a penchant for being patent maximalists.