US Supreme Court rules against LG, will limit patent royalties

It has taken long enough, but the US Supreme Court has finally ruled in the patent royalties case between Quanta Computer and LG Electronics. Justice Clarence Thomas noted that "because the exhaustion doctrine applies to method patents and because the license authorizes the sale of components that substantially embody the patents in suit, the sale exhausted all patents," essentially hammering down any of LG's lingering hopes to extract additional royalties from Quanta (or anyone else tangled up in a similar situation). Put simply, the court ruled that LG couldn't solicit more royalties from firms buying LG-provided Intel products, of which Intel had already paid patent royalties on. So much for double dipping in the royalties pool, huh?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:02PM]

First here cuz everyone's at wwdc!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:03PM]

Fail

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:04PM]

Dear Lance,

For the love of god, please, hit yourself in the face.

Sincerely, Bunson

[rock99rock Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:02PM]

Good.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:03PM]

dam you elite man rock99rock!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:03PM]

lawl... we can't post on the apple keynote. I guess they don't want another argument. Lame. I was looking forward to bashing Windows and Apple trolls. Oh well, I'll just have to drive downtown and find a hobo to fight with.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:04PM]

Yeah, this should remove about a couple 100K patent suits off the dockets. Patent suits have gotten out of hand lately.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:10PM]

exactly

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:08PM]

Did I hear somebody mention Apple?

less than 1 hour to go you Retards!

Lg can take a back seat with the craptacular Chocolate phones...

this is A-town now!

First!

[KAL326 Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:10PM]

This sets a good president for the Vizio patent suit as well. Since the issue that Vizio didn't pay for the patents, but the component makers did it seems like I similar case. Keep the cheap HDTVs coming.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:17PM]

Why did those silly Koreans change they're name? "LG" stands for "Lucky Goldstar" Such a great and reliable name.

[Rick36 Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:26PM]

Maybe some hot shot lawyer can figure out how to get around Apple's overly restrictive policy on clones like you used to be able to get a long time ago.

Think of it, Asian knock offs of the iPhone, MacBook, Steve Jobs.

[ljvb Posted Jun 9th 2008 12:33PM]

We don't need a Steve Jobs clone.. 1 is enough

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2008 1:56PM]

did someone "say asian knock of the iphone"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKU_SU2xNhk

[Johnny Socko Posted Jun 9th 2008 1:15PM]

Waitwaitwaitwait...

Clarence Thomas wrote an OPINION?!

Was everyone else out sick?