News US judge recommends SiRF ban

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08/29/us-judge-recommends-sirf-ban/1

A judge on the International Trade Commission is recommending a ban on the import of popular SiRF GPS chips after accusations that the devices breach several Broadcom patents

 

Yes because it's obviously much more important that Broadcom's CEO gets another ten Ferraris than that everyone has decent GPS.

 

are they mad?

I hope that if broadcom wins it introduces a similar chip at similar cost.


ninja edit: if you want a GPS, Grab it now!

 

Ug that seems ludicrous to me, another example of when patents go wrong. The best product should win, not someone who called dibs on a concept first. If you created the technology you would thhink you would be able to make it function better than the competition anyway.

 

And for next magic trick...

I shall request a patent for the process of approving patents. When my patent is granted, I will then argue to null and void all existing patents because their approval would be in violation of my patent. Wait... I guess that can't be retroactive. Foiled again!

 

LOL

epic thinking

 

That has (sort of) been done before. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/ibm_patents_patents/

Seriously though, how sad is that?