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Why It Is Important That China Has Perfected The Ball Point Pen

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Not your low-cost ten-a-pen pen, but the more high-end pens with well fitting barrels and balls for smoother writing experiences. Ballpoint pens aren’t actually new to China. Its 3,000 pen manufacturers make around 40 billion of them a year and fulfill 80 percent of the world’s demand. There’s just one problem: China doesn’t possess the advanced alloys and machines necessary to make a high-quality pen ball and socket. As a result, 90 percent of China’s pen tips are imported. Pens made from Chinese components are widely acknowledged to be inferior — a point made by Premier Li Keqiang in a 2015

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being Samsung’s IP lawyer

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Reuters: Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company’s tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could identify which company produced which. “Not at this distance your honor,” said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away. “Can any of Samsung’s lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?” I hope the defence team like movies about gladiators.

Samsung to pay Microsoft for Android while Microsoft pay Nokia for Windows Phone

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Back in February, a huge number of people wondered why Nokia went with Windows Phone 7 and not Android. Here’s another reason to add to the rather obvious business cases that were pointed out after Feb 11, and it’s all to do with Samsung. Today, Samsung announced they would be paying Microsoft a per-device royalty on all their Android devices. And the per-device Android fee handed to Microsoft is more than the per-device cost of licencing Windows Phone 7. There’s a potential fiduciary argument that Windows Phone is now cheaper than Android. Starter for ten, how much are Nokia paying per

Follow the patent, follow the money, find some madness from HTC

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U.S. Patent No. 6,473,006 on a “method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad”; originally filed by Phone-com, which assigned it to Openwave, then sold to a French company named Purple Labs, which sold it on to Myriad’s French subsidiary, sold by Myriad to Google last year and by Google to HTC on August 29, 2011 (recorded on September 1). And now HTC use it to sue Apple for infringing on their IP. Madness, I tell you. Madness!