EU Lawmakers Back Draft Rules on Patents for Connected Cars, Telecom Equipment

EU lawmakers on Wednesday approved draft rules governing patents key to technologies for telecom equipment and connected cars in the face of criticism from Nokia, Ericsson and other patent holders. From a report: The draft rules proposed by the European Commission in April last year seek to end costly and lengthy litigation over patents used in technologies for telecom equipment, mobile phones, computers, connected cars and smart devices. The European Parliament will now have to thrash out the details of the proposed rules with EU countries before it can become law. Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens in a letter to EU lawmakers in January, highlighted concerns from the European Patent Office, standard-setting body ETSI and other bodies on the draft rules. Lobbying group IP Europe, which counts Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm as its members, reiterated its opposition to the draft rules. "The beneficiaries would not be SMEs as claimed but big tech," IP Europe's managing director Patrick McCutcheon said ahead of the lawmakers' vote.

One step closer to car wars

[Revek]

I remember a story about how all the cars turned on the humans and a new class of warrior had to hunt them down and destroy them.

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[GrpA]

The cars that ate Paris?

Patent stupidity

[Uldis Segliņš]

Such patent stupidity is outrageous. What was invented? How much resources were spent to invent a connection of a car to the internet? This does not progress the innovation, but holds it back.