2 posts and columns on royalty payments

We Plan to Use the Damages From the Apple Suit to Fund Our Predictive Trolling Patent

in News on December 4, 2009 at 10:36 am PT

Opti really has managed to turn an obscure patent into quite a little business model, hasn’t it? After squeezing $10 million out of Nvidia for infringing its patents on “Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses,” Opti turned around and filed suit against Apple for the same thing. And now a court has found in its favor.
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YouTube U.K. Settles Royalty Fight, Turns Music Videos Back On Again

in Media on September 2, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Rejoice, British Web surfers! You’ll soon be able to watch your favorite music videos on YouTube again. Google has reached a settlement with a British licensing group in a dispute over royalty payments, which means that YouTube’s U.K. outpost will begin showing licensed music videos again, following a five-month outage.
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