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Symmetry
on July 29, 2013
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US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to...
But I presume the companies that have been paying royalties for half a decade won't get their money back.
rhizome
on July 29, 2013
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I've long advocated for refund clauses in royalty settlement agreements, in the eventuality that the patent is invalidated.
throwawaykf
on July 30, 2013
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Well, most large companies are probably not directly paying royalties, but instead bartering by cross-licensing their own just-as-presumptuously-valid patents :-)
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