Part I: Goldilocks, “Just Right” and Standards Essential Patent licensesThis is the start of a multi-part tale of Innovation. Of Invention. Of Conflict. Of resolution and of progress.Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021
Mr. Block and the Wireless Patents: A Fable from a distant time and placeFables are stories that convey a “useful truth”, and below I’m going to tell the tale of Mr. Block and the Wireless Patents.Aug 24, 2021Aug 24, 2021
“You can get the Internet on that Phone?”: The Q-phone Launches, 1997After my PDQ story a few weeks ago, a bunch of folks pinged me and said “how can you skip over the Q Phone”? So, now I’m back to 1997…Jul 20, 20211Jul 20, 20211
Chapter 2: Qualcomm PDQ, the first integrated PDA/OS/Mobile Phone -and why it perishedOk, so I‘m writing again, and I’ve been getting emails and texts asking “where’s Chapter 2”? Here it is.Jun 29, 20211Jun 29, 20211
When did our Smartphone become a Smartphone?We all have a Smartphone in our pockets or purses. We know it’s a Smartphone, we know it’s an indispensable (sometimes frustratingly so)…Jun 14, 2021Jun 14, 2021
