Possible X360 Ban Sales In The US.

Trust me it sucks no matter who made it. I dropped my droid phone.

Assuming there is a ruling against MS, I am sure the resolution will just be a settlement cash figure or percentage take. MS will likely just pursue whatever course is necessary--and bite the bullet and give Motorola a slice of the take of sales to ensure continued growth/presence in this market segment--if it cannot win the ruling outright.

Which is really what Motorola wants ultimately, anyhow, I would think given they do not have a product line whose market positioning would directly benefit from the removal of XBOX units from the console market.

This is old, as Nintendo is also piled on with numerous alleged patent infringements for their wireless and motion control technology. It's really a constant cycle of who made what, who is using what, and who has proper ownership to intellectual property, which the concept in of itself is so vague that having it documented in legal terms is downright silly.

Here's an example for the mobile device industry. I'm sure the video game industry has just a complex and lengthy of a web.



Besides, 99% of the time lawsuits like these are stretched out bitterly to resume business as usual, and if push comes to shove from a judge, Microsoft will settle a big figure for Motorolla and the Xbox 360 will continue on as usual.

That's what I just said, but without a graphic. ;_;

/cry Artemcion

Also for Motorolla coming this late into the game, just shows they're out mooching for money. If it truly was a matter of principle over infringed patent technology, this would have been an issue many many years ago. Just a quick buck to be made before the next big thing comes out, because by then it'd be far too late.

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you've totally failed to realize what everyone has told you about motorola making "products" that do not always hit the end user.

in this case, patents. (for technology the company invented and is being used in other devices)

companies sue each other for patent infringing all the time, this is nothing special or new.

also; when did august = 4-6years?


edit- i should really learn to hit that refresh button :<

Its the U.S. legal system >.>

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That is a great picture showing how stupid it really is.

This is what happens when you have 2,000 patents a day being filed and companies filing every single little thing. Plus they last so long that they compile a huge list.

Amazon even patented the ability to have a one button checkout!

That's how stupid it is.

it's hardware more than software, and h.264 should be public now. the other infringements I can't recall.


while motorola has always made ***phones, the android OS is by far superior than any other mobile OS...

a lot of companies have bluetooth headseats, not just motorola, unfortunately they're about the best, as far as phones go, samsung is about the only person who makes better phones, it's kind of sad, none are meant to last, and very few have qwerty keyboards still, I detest touchscreen keyboards.

in regards to Microsoft's contribution over Motorola in technology: Microsoft would lose, as far as taxable, Microsoft would win.

Motorola makes far too many products that's used in so many devices it's interesting, it's sad that their phones aren't made as well.

lol, Androis OS is made by Google, and is derived from Linux, and ffs Android =/= droid.

not really, it's the international copyright laws, multiple legal systems.

copyright has far extended it's original purpose, laws totally need a revamp back to their intent, which wasn't to protect their pockets/investments.

while I agree that it's gone too far, but currently they kind of have to patent things like that, before somebody else does, and then they can't use it.

Then again: it would be in everyone's best interest if EVERY SITE had such a thing, see what I mean about public domain?

I hope it happens solely that all of my friends will stop bragging about their inferior consoles.

What this proves, is that Kodak and Nokia are the only two companies with unique ideas. They, however, have been unable to properly market said ideas in the past few years and are relying on lawsuits of all the companies that actually made money with said ideas in order to stay afloat.

Nokia used to be amazing phones, but they had bad management, much unlike apple who has mediocre phones but had amazing management.

the other thing is a lot of really smart people work on such things, it's likely that different teams came to the same idea in new technology, and they both tried to market it, it's really a matter of who first files the paperwork, which ultimately screws the end user over the most, due to lack of options.

Like I currently have a Pantech crossover, which has a qwerty (which I love) but the phone overall is kinda meh, the thing won't let me view phone contacts from the phone itself in the phonebook, yet when I add new ones it puts them on the phone's memory, I have to add them, then copy them to my sim or sd card to view them...

it locks up randomly (the touchscreen) and there's lack up software upgrades for it, and I can't even download firefox to it (yeah I could probably recompile an old version for it, but I can't code for ***).

Last Samsung phone I had (which are supposed to be great) was a piece of garbage, phone wise they don't make anything to really last, and one can't just build their own due to patents, well unless you want it to be super clunky, or have access to the machines. (can't solder that ***by hand).

I'm betting this all has to do with the patent wars google v microsoft edition... I can't be sure but I know google bought a big chunk of motorola recently and all these tech companies like to sue each other over this stuff constantly...

to be fair: if it came down between Google and Microsoft, I'd rather have Google win.

that being said, Google should release a game console, they'd corner the market /laughs

This is very surprising, because all of their other electronics departments are so strong.

They'd just force consoles out of business and push for cloud gaming.

wouldn't say the consoles would be out, but the latter would be about true, which is happening anyway, to many people's dismay.

it would be much less disappointing if the US didn't have such internet services.

I am severely disappointing in the great push to cloud computing anyway, I think it's ridiculous that they're trying to go back to dummy terminals, to be fair though most people don't need a powerful machine, but it will suck for those who do, as the prices will skyrocket.

Recently did a term paper on Kodak and can say with full confidence that they do NOT produce unique ideas and the only thing keeping them afloat is their printer/copier lines. I agree though their management is atrocious and they failed to capitalize a decade ago losing their hold on the mobile market faster than Ron Jeremy finishes.

I read about their inability to move on to the next generation of technology as well. They are, however suing over lens capture technology.

I was mostly referring ot Nokia. They have a small group of genius' dropping out phone ideas. Problem is, ever since we moved to smart phones, they haven't been able to squeeze them all in a good phone themselves; nor pick a better OS to operate. They have to get out of this windows craze and either run Android, or pair with Apple. I would love to see Nokia hardware and features on an OS as stable as iOS.

Kodak had a hold on the mobile market? news to me.

they could essentially run their own version of the Android OS, but to be fair it would be better for everyone if they switched to the general release of Android, and just made their drivers well.

While I'll applaud them for finally dropping their garbage OS, but an OS anyone can write programs for just gives so much more to everyone.