RE:IPA vs Amazon Jury trial Now you are all starting to get it. People have been in a coma. Buying QTRH now is the equivalent of buying junior oil companies when crude was trading negative. Essentially our patents were valued at a negative until I broke the Motorola news. All of our patents and the upcoming Motorola settlement is only worth $0.10 on the share price. This is like buying junior oil stocks at $1 / oil whereas last week they were negative. Look at oil now.
Read the below, especially the paragraph highlighted, and tell me if a jury will be lenient on Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Amazon Jury verdict in less than 60 days. Or BIG settlements. Oh yah, forgot to mention, that the market currently values this technology at ZERO.
Even though Apple bought the spin-off company SIRI including the non exclusive license to the patents that QTRH now owns. I am sure the technology is useless, right?
From the complaint...
8. SRI International, Inc. (“SRI”), the original owner of the patents-in-suit, is an independent, not-for-profit research institute that conducts client-supported research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations.
9. SRI employs about 2,100 people worldwide, including scientists, engineers, technologists, policy researchers, and corporate and support staff. SRI works with clients to take the most advanced R&D from the laboratory to the marketplace. SRI collaborates across technical and scientific disciplines to generate real innovation and create value by inventing solutions that solve challenging problems and looks ahead to the needs of the future. For more than 70 years, SRI has led the discovery and design of ground-breaking products, technologies, and industries—from the computer mouse and intelligent personal assistants to robotic surgery, medical ultrasound, cancer treatments, and more. The revenue generated by SRI’s R&D projects, commercialization activities, and marketplace solutions is reinvested in SRI capabilities, facilities, and staff to advance its mission.
10. Among its many areas of research, SRI has engaged in fundamental research and development related to intelligent personal assistants and speech-based navigation of electronic data sources.
11. SRI’s innovative work on personal digital assistants was a key area of development in one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence projects, the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (“CALO”). The vision for the SRI-led CALO project, which was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”), was to create groundbreaking software that could revolutionize how computers support decision-makers.
12. SRI’s work on personal digital assistants and speech-based navigation of electronic data sources, which started before the launch of the CALO project, developed further as part of the project. SRI’s engineers were awarded numerous patents on their groundbreaking personal digital assistant and speech-based navigation inventions.
13. To bring the personal digital assistant and speech-based navigation technology to the marketplace, SRI formed the spin-off company Siri, Inc. in 2007, and granted it a non-exclusive license to the patent portfolio. The technology was demonstrated as an iPhone app at technology conferences and later released as an iPhone 3GS app in February 2010. In April 2010, Apple Inc. acquired Siri, Inc. In 2011, the Siri personal digital assistant was released as an integrated feature of the iPhone 4S.
14. Intelligent personal assistants and speech-based navigation of electronic data sources have continued to be implemented as effective and user-friendly solutions for interacting with electronic devices.
15. On May 6, 2016, IPA acquired the SRI patent portfolio at issue here. IPA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WiLAN, a leading technology innovation and licensing business actively engaged in research, development, and licensing of new technologies.