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.

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.

  • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I think the hardest part is that distinction though.

    Like in software you have patents for one-click shopping, minigames in video game loading screens, etc. - those aren’t hard-researched algorithms, they’re ideas.

    • FantasticFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I agree on those examples. They should be able to patent their particular implementation - like maybe it took a lot of R&D to work out how to get server response times fast enough for one-click to work, or to get loading times fast enough to have a mini-game in the loading screen etc.

      But they shouldn’t be able to patent the entire concept. That’s ridiculous.

      • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You copyright implementations though, not patent them - that is what software copyright is.