Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt opened up to The Wall Street Journal in a Dec. 4 interview (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323717004578159481472653460.html). Among the topics covered: the status of his company's ongoing patent war with Apple, as well as its attempts to make the Android mobile operating system more of a revenue giant. In Schmidt's mind, startups have the most to lose in the current patent wars (http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/googles-schmidt-patent-wars-harm-startups/): 'There's a young [Android co-founder] Andy Rubin trying to form a new version of Danger [the smartphone company Mr. Rubin co-founded before Android]. How is he or she going to be able to get the patent coverage necessary to offer version one of their product? That's the real consequence of this.'

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/1610229/googles-schmidt-patent-wars-harm-startups