Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.
Software patents shouldn’t exist. You can’t patent the idea of doing something.
Texas courts are the favorite venue for most patent claims. Mostly because they suck at technology and give it up for a plaintiff.
said in its 2021 lawsuit that founder David Strober invented technology in 2010 to “move” videos from a small device like a smartphone to a larger device like a television.
What the fuck? lmao. How is this able to be patented?
Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t DLNA basically prior art for this patent?