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Please produce evidence of Samsung's abuse | 264 comments | Create New Account
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How is Samsung related to RealTek?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 03:52 PM EST

You stated:

Samsung is abusing their FRAND patents in a much worse way
I asked for evidence to support that and you pointed me to the "Realtek Semi v. LSI" case and your summary conclusion of how the future will play out.

I'm sorry, but your expectation of the future does not prove wrong-doing today. I asked for evidence of wrong-doing today as you claimed. As a result, you pointed to a case that does not seem to involve Samsung. You didn't event point to any specific behavior within that case that you view to be incorrect.

So - given your evidence of wrong doing by Samsung with regards abusing Samsung's FRAND patents appears to be non-existent, some further questions:

    What is Samsung's relationship to Realtek?
    What is it that Realtek has done that you believe to be wrong?
You can choose to continue not to be explicit if you really want to. But you'll not sell most here on your point of view without getting into explicit details so we can judge for ourselves.

RAS

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Please produce evidence of Samsung's abuse
Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 08:26 PM EST
You know, the Realtek case (cases) is stayed while the ITC does its thing. So there is zero proof of anything yet. The Realtek v. LSI case, 2012 WL 4845628 (N.D. Cal., Oct. 10, 2012) was dismissed by the judge.

If you read this document, a powerpoint by Kirkland & Ellis, it gives a run down of all the RAND cases that have been going on. And what you will see is that there is an issue with FRAND, in that there have been a lot of complaints to regulatory bodies, but sometimes a lot of complaints means there is a plot afoot and Microsoft and its running dogs are filing complaints just to cause trouble for competition. What I discern is those who don't have FRAND patents to shake a stick at, like Microsoft, wish to disarm those who do, like Motorola, using strategies cooked up from earlier cases. That's why they all claim more or less the same things. What a coincidence.

So is there FRAND abuse? Or are entities like Motorola trying to defend themselves from patent infringement attacks by using what they have? Since both Microsoft and Apple sued instead of negotiating a price, and later Apple's case against motorola in Wisc. was thrown out when Apple revealed it wasn't planning to abide by the royalty set by the judge unless it met their approval, one might assume that this is just a legal strategy, not sincere claims of abuse.

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