If we are going to ignore the huge amount of money poured , insanely long time it takes ridiculously long and descriptions set out during the trial that may seem to the viewer on the side as two children fighting, one of them said " she stole my toy " , the parents answered " you are right - Sammy , then please give back " and then later said " no , I do not " .By the way , it will take a few months for us to study the response of parents to the poor little Sam .Patent war may seem like a hot new trend by companies to " lock " the enemies , earn money and reduce competition , but dragging a weak rival in court until they gave up due to lack of ability to fight is a very old tool used quite effectively for most of the history of computers .Back in 2008 , a small company called Vlingo created , the company has a great product under their hands , which allows the machine to understand human speech , among others, the company has been approached by Apple to have integrated the technology into their products ( read : Siri ) , wheels already began to turn around and things looked good for the company , however , a gloomy day ( maybe it was sunny ) in 2008 , Vlingo has been contacted by a much larger company claiming they violated one of their patents and offered two options : agree to sell the company or face lawsuit .Vlingo owner , Michael Phillips , refused to sell the company now that everything is going so well and was slapped with a subpoena , the first of six lawsuits Vlingo about to hit the line with a rival company , the trial did not go well for the company right after the introduction of the small voice it starts and with five more experiments are intended to hold down the company 's clear to Vlingo partners who bet on them , even if they have superior technology , is betting that has little to gain and much to lose in the mobile world where things change in speed increased , so they lose Apple and most of their other clients are migrating to larger competitors who lock them down in a lawsuit .3 years later , Vlingo won the battle and prove that they do not infringe any patents by Nuance , which temporarily closed a large deal with Apple ( and is being used by Siri ) , and they cost $ 3 million , money that they will never see again , and because most of the major clients left because of this case - there is no revenue has been coming to the company , their market value plunge and any hope for escape , after winning the battle proves nothing as Vlingo has finally lost the war , and with 5 lawsuits in the future their bleak future , the company gave up and sold to Nuance .But the patent lawsuits are not just a case of David holding Goliath at bay until then surrendered , in 2000 a small company called Immerson sued Microsoft and Sony for use in remote vibrating their respectable gaming consoles ( Xbox and PS ) , did not want to go to court to settle MS outside the walls of the court to buy 10 % stake Immerson while Sony stands to court , six years after the trial and the second trial ( which Samsung entered the trial Apple ) Sony lost the case and was forced to pay $ 82 million as well as remove the vibrate feature remotely them , which they did for PS3 announced , a year later they settled an agreement with Immerson and got back feature .But the most interesting case in this regard is the one that really did not happen back in the 80's , the PC market and micro computers ( desktop stationary that you have in your room ) has just started to develop , market maker is none other than IBM and which will turn most of the computer's operating system ' is Microsoft with their PC - DOS , but not signed exclusivity to MS they allow them to sell the DOS operating system to other hardware manufacturers who want under the brand MS - DOS , IBM computers , sold since 1980 gained so much popularity that they need to find some sort of hook to prevent customers from getting any cheaper rival models .IBM created their first BIOS micro - computers , basically it is the part of the code written on the hardware layer ( think world before frameworks , java and 3rd generation languages ) intended to provide a software , that is - OS , basic access to the hardware , ( read keystrokes , write to the screen etc. ) , the OS will know how to get to the hardware in a unified way and any programs written using these system calls can be run on the machine, but not on a different one if it does not have exactly the same system call .
Have the popularity they have , a PC most of the world's software developers do not take the time to write a program ( games , utilities , etc. ) to PC than IBM made , like many developers bother to write apps for the iPhone and android and pretty much ignore the rest , so hardware manufacturers decided to build a compatible IBM ( IBM or clone ) machine that will have the same BIOS with the same system calls and therefore any software written for the IBM PC will basically be able to run on their hardware as well .The problem is - BIOS protected by patents and next - it's not open source and there are no documents that have been written so not much outside of IBM knows exactly how it works , some companies such as product data Columbia ( CDP ) reverse engineered ( learn how it works and creates a copy ) from IBM machines to have IBM compatible computers , but many of them sued and did not even have the chance to get their hardware in the market ( or do so much later than everyone else ) , there is one company that does the same thing , but decided to protect themselves from being sued in order to have a chance against the giant PC , they reverse engineered the IBM BIOS using clean room which can basically prove that they did not copy anything , but - because there is always a chance IBM will require them to delay their entry to the market - they also buy large insurance ( InfoWorld - April 29, 1985 - page 69 ) against lawsuits that IBM has basically turned away from a battle they can not win with no chance of depleting funds the competition , there is the story of history - Phoenix sold they run IBM BIOS compatible to Compaq and others , encourage the growth of the PC and allow other hardware manufacturers sell cheap PCs are eating and eventually dismantled IBM foothold of the PC market .It is quite clear that the patent laws as currently used mostly for better or worse , and serve more as a tool by a large company then keep hard-won intellectual property , however - there are quite a lot of cases throughout history that set this rule really helps " small fish in the sea " see the results of their work , but it usually takes several years and the depletion of the funds in order to achieve that , it is clear that careful planning and look far enough will save a lot of trouble and cash to the company said that in order to keep yourself from big shark but there is a limit to how far one may see , other ideas such as having loser winners include court costs may actually refrain small company of great demand , creating the opposite effect to what was intended and I doubt anyone would give insurance against lawsuits by violating all the trials were flying around these days . And this is all before even discussing about the adverse effects on innovation patent rules have
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