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Comment by ulf-77723 | Hacker News Reader

AVM recently announced that the business might be sold by the founders. This law suit somehow seems to me that the price for the company should be influenced artificially.

On the other hand China just saw protectionism by the US happening and now they are shifting gears. How long will it take until sanctions by the US will be useless?

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AVM isn't exactly a nice and friendly company. It behaves as shitty as you would expect any networking company to behave. I completely believe that they might have simply chosen not to pay for these patents to save a buck.

Of course I oppose the whole business of shoving as many of your own patents into standard protocols that you see in WiFi and 4/5/6G (basically forcing the world to pay you a licensing fee) but that's not just a Chinese practice.

AVM claims they're optimistic about their chances for appealing the ruling, so we'll have to wait and see what happens. So far, the deck seems to be stacked against AVM and their attempted scheme to avoid licensing fees.

According to the Heise article (https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Fritzboxen-AVM-verliert-Pat...), the lawsuit is from 2022, so before the intention of the founders to sell was announced, and was against several companies, including Amazon, Stellantis and Netgear. So, if there is any ulterior motive behind this, it's maybe tit-for-tat because of the US and EU efforts to exclude Huawei from government and network infrastructure projects, but not something directed specifically against AVM...

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