Motorola and Microsoft Inc. will go before and federal judge tomorrow in Seattle to rule if the wrongfully wielded patents of standard technology.
At issue is whether Motorola has violated its contract for licensing technology considered part of an industry standard. We all know that video streaming and wifi has become a moblie must haves on the latest mobile devices. Patent owners are expected to license their technology on reasonable terms once it becomes part of a standard. So the question to ask is what is reasonable.
Motorola's patents for video streaming and Wi-Fi are essential for mobile and entertainment devices and Microsoft adopted them for use in products including its core Windows operating system. Well my thing about this is how were these two companies able to pull this off and even go with business without coming to reasonable terms. We all have mobile devices that has video streaming and Wifi but who is making the real profit here? I guess thas not the issue since the patents are worth more right but what about the customers who paid those set prices by the patents holder if they were wrongfully wielded?
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