Google's Top Lawyer: Some Apple Inventions are Commercially Essential, Should Be Made Into Standards
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he wants other companies to "invent their own stuff", and that Apple shouldn't be "inventor for the world". Google General Counsel Kent Walker disagrees, and this month wrote a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee arguing that commercial inventions that impact "consumer welfare" should be just as important as technical patents. All Things D's John Paczkowski interprets Walker's argument thusly: In other words, Google’s view is that just as there are patents that are standard essential, there are also patents that are...
Published By: Mac Rumors - Friday, 20 July, 2012
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