I am always analyzing to see what the crowd got wrong. Figuring out early that the prevailing wisdom is wrong is one of the cornerstones of my investment methodology.
Since I often write unpopular views, receiving hate email goes with the territory. Some of the emails in response to slide-to-unlock feature in mobile phones in the article Apple To Make Billions On Google’s Android were particularly vicious.
‘I am a patent attorney specializing in software utility patents. I have won a number of disputes over patents similar to slide to unlock. No court will ever uphold this patent. You f* idiot, you know nothing. Stop writing. You are an engineer who knows nothing about patents. If you ever write about patents again, I am …..’
Apple (AAPL) had just kicked Google’s (GOOG) $12.5 billion dollar boy, Motorola Mobility (MMI), right where it hurts winning a major legal battle.
Google is paying about $12.5 billion to buy Motorola Mobility. According to Google, it has bought Motorola Mobility for its 17,000 patents. Google has been bolstering its patent portfolio as it battles Apple in the mobile markets.
In Germany, Munich Regional Court has ruled that Motorola’s phones infringe Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent
This is a major victory for Apple. Apple can use this decision against all Android vendors.
It is likely that I will get more hate email from fans of Google claiming that Google can get around it. Technically, it is simple to get around this patent by using a different kind of motion to unlock a phone…Read more at Forbes
