Using this logic, can a defendant subpoena cell information of cops or other prosecution witnesses in a criminal case? I am making an assumption that they may have been able to do that even today under narrow circumstances, but this ruling would make it easier. Divorce lawyers, PIs should be able to request this data as well from cell phone companies.
How much of that budget is reserved for fighting and settling police brutality cases? Part of that budget could most probably be used to get the body cameras.
First to get the fact straight. Microsoft first sued Motorola and not the other way around. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/courts-will-decide-how-much-patent-cash-motorola-gets-from-microsof/
We can argue about the whether Motorola should ask for 2.25% or lower, but the other side of the coin is that Microsoft would not want to pay anything at all. So in the event Google follow's Mike's advice, what option would they have to ever get anyone to pay for their FRAND patents.
I agree that software patents are not good for innovation(three cheers for Red hat/Rackspace), but unilaterally disarming yourself is even worse for innovation and health of a company.
I wonder how this impacts the employees who had the stock options/RSUs. I don't think they will be very happy if the stock keeps on tanking. Zuckerberg can ignore investors, but it is harder to ignore the employees. Also the taxes may be another issue. From what I remember when the RSUs are vested they will be treated as normal income and taxed immediately. Normally to pay that tax employees would look to sell some of that stock. The best scenario would probably be that the stock price starts improving once those RSUs are vested. If the stock price again drops significantly after the vesting then they will have to sell most of the stocks just to pay the taxes.
I prefer android over Ipad. However some of these companies do not enough resources to code for both platforms and decide to program only for Ipad. "Speak for Yourself" is one such app, another one is proloquo2go which is what my daughter is using now.
" If one of my children had this issue, $7000 would seem a small price to pay to achieve the end result."
Since I have a child who is autistic I can say share my perspective. I can afford 7000$ if that was the only thing that my child needed. Currently she undergoes intensive therapy which costs around 50K a year. While this 50K is currently being funded by our district, I have paid for this while she was on a waitlist for 2 years. The funding may disappear at any time when(not if) the district gets into financial trouble. Other than this I have spent thousands on speech therapy.
I consider myself lucky that between me and my wife we have the earning capability to support these costs and that we have received this additional funding, but not everyone is in the same situation.
Still I would hesitate to buy this tool for 7K till I am absolutely sure that my daughter likes the tool. I have been looking at AAC apps for Ipad and android for a long time and there are a few good ones in the 200 dollar range. Then there are others which charge a monthly subscription. it would be shame if those apps get into similar patent problems.
P.S. - Just to clarify.. I am not taking any kind of offense to the comment posted by Anonymous. He/she has presented a really good comment. Just sharing my perspective about why the decision to spend 7K is not an easy one.
Even though I doubt that the biography will ever get entered as evidence it may still be used by a creative lawyer to influence a jury. "Apple thought that google was "stealing" from them and was ready to spend 40 billion to get back at Google. How much do you think that they should pay for stealing from my client." I am not a lawyer, so maybe this will never happen.
It is obvious techdirect readers are morons compared to the readers of the Observer Dispatch.
Just look at the level of detail needed by the techdirect readers for a recent article.
"We had recently written about how a group called the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Inc (SMRi) had received trademarks on the name of the city of Sturgis, where the famed motorcycle rally is held each August. SMRi was then using the trademark to block the sale of souvenirs from any "unauthorized provider."
This is all the information a reader of Observer Dispatch would need.
We had recently written about how a group which had received trademarks on the name of the city, where a famed motorcycle rally is held each August. The group was then using the trademark to block the sale of souvenirs from any "unauthorized provider."
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Does this work both ways
Using this logic, can a defendant subpoena cell information of cops or other prosecution witnesses in a criminal case? I am making an assumption that they may have been able to do that even today under narrow circumstances, but this ruling would make it easier. Divorce lawyers, PIs should be able to request this data as well from cell phone companies.
Re: Re: This is why police need to wear bodycameras
How much of that budget is reserved for fighting and settling police brutality cases? Part of that budget could most probably be used to get the body cameras.
the problem with blanket statements
First to get the fact straight. Microsoft first sued Motorola and not the other way around. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/courts-will-decide-how-much-patent-cash-motorola-gets-from-microsof/
We can argue about the whether Motorola should ask for 2.25% or lower, but the other side of the coin is that Microsoft would not want to pay anything at all. So in the event Google follow's Mike's advice, what option would they have to ever get anyone to pay for their FRAND patents.
I agree that software patents are not good for innovation(three cheers for Red hat/Rackspace), but unilaterally disarming yourself is even worse for innovation and health of a company.
how does this impact the employees
I wonder how this impacts the employees who had the stock options/RSUs. I don't think they will be very happy if the stock keeps on tanking. Zuckerberg can ignore investors, but it is harder to ignore the employees. Also the taxes may be another issue. From what I remember when the RSUs are vested they will be treated as normal income and taxed immediately. Normally to pay that tax employees would look to sell some of that stock. The best scenario would probably be that the stock price starts improving once those RSUs are vested. If the stock price again drops significantly after the vesting then they will have to sell most of the stocks just to pay the taxes.
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I prefer android over Ipad. However some of these companies do not enough resources to code for both platforms and decide to program only for Ipad. "Speak for Yourself" is one such app, another one is proloquo2go which is what my daughter is using now.
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" If one of my children had this issue, $7000 would seem a small price to pay to achieve the end result."
Since I have a child who is autistic I can say share my perspective. I can afford 7000$ if that was the only thing that my child needed. Currently she undergoes intensive therapy which costs around 50K a year. While this 50K is currently being funded by our district, I have paid for this while she was on a waitlist for 2 years. The funding may disappear at any time when(not if) the district gets into financial trouble. Other than this I have spent thousands on speech therapy.
I consider myself lucky that between me and my wife we have the earning capability to support these costs and that we have received this additional funding, but not everyone is in the same situation.
Still I would hesitate to buy this tool for 7K till I am absolutely sure that my daughter likes the tool. I have been looking at AAC apps for Ipad and android for a long time and there are a few good ones in the 200 dollar range. Then there are others which charge a monthly subscription. it would be shame if those apps get into similar patent problems.
P.S. - Just to clarify.. I am not taking any kind of offense to the comment posted by Anonymous. He/she has presented a really good comment. Just sharing my perspective about why the decision to spend 7K is not an easy one.
Steve's Biography
Even though I doubt that the biography will ever get entered as evidence it may still be used by a creative lawyer to influence a jury. "Apple thought that google was "stealing" from them and was ready to spend 40 billion to get back at Google. How much do you think that they should pay for stealing from my client." I am not a lawyer, so maybe this will never happen.
who is the moron here
It is obvious techdirect readers are morons compared to the readers of the Observer Dispatch.
Just look at the level of detail needed by the techdirect readers for a recent article.
"We had recently written about how a group called the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Inc (SMRi) had received trademarks on the name of the city of Sturgis, where the famed motorcycle rally is held each August. SMRi was then using the trademark to block the sale of souvenirs from any "unauthorized provider."
This is all the information a reader of Observer Dispatch would need.
We had recently written about how a group which had received trademarks on the name of the city, where a famed motorcycle rally is held each August. The group was then using the trademark to block the sale of souvenirs from any "unauthorized provider."