 Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, McAfee, nVidia... la nhung ten tuoi da qua quen thuoc doi voi nhung nguoi yeu may tinh khap hanh tinh nhung cung chang xa la gi doi voi cac... toa an. Ly do that don gian: ho thuong xuyen gap rac roi voi cac qui dinh phap luat ve quyen so huu phat minh.
Nhung nam dau tien cua the ky 21, the gioi chung kien cuoc chay dua cong nghe giua cac nha san xuat (phan cung cung nhu phan mem). Viec ung dung thanh cong mot cong nghe moi co the mang ve nhieu ti USD loi nhuan nhung cung co the ket thuc bang mot “an phat” tri gia tuong duong loi nhuan.
Cac hang lon bao gio cung so huu nhieu bang sang che hon cac hang nho nhung so lan... ra toa cua ho cung nhieu hon. Microsoft co le la hang bi kien nhieu nhat. Cong nghe ActiveX ho tro da phuong tien trong Internet Explorer da “dot” mat cua hang phan mem lon nhat the gioi 520 trieu USD sau khi toa Chicago tuyen Eolas Technologies va Dai hoc California thang kien vao ngay 29-9-2005. Truoc do hai thang, “nguoi khong lo” cung phai ngam dang nuot cay boi thuong 8,96 trieu USD cho nha khoa hoc nguoi Guatemala la Carlos Armando Amado vi su dung trai phep phan mem giup chuyen du lieu giua Microsoft Excel va Microsoft Acess.
Gan day nhat, ngay 23-8-2006, Microsoft lai phai boi thuong cho z4 Technologies 140 trieu USD vi vi pham bang sang che cong nghe kich hoat san pham (Product Activation).
Tuy nhien, nhung khoan boi thuong do chua the so sanh duoc voi khoan tien Microsoft phai tra cho Sun Microsystem thang 4-2004. Sau 10 nam deo duoi vu kien, hai ben “hoa giai” va bat dau hop tac, doi lai Sun nhan duoc gan 2 ti USD.
Chang rieng Microsoft ma cac hang phan mem lon khac cung gap rac roi voi quyen so huu phat minh. AT&T tung canh cao Apple, CyberLink, DivX, InterVideo va Sonic Solutions vi toi “dung chua” cong nghe MPEG-4. Trong khi do, Forgent “dut tui” tren 100 trieu USD tu 35 cong ty nho dinh dang JPEG.
Den thang tu nam nay, Apple lai duoc toa an trieu tap vi Burst.com cho rang iTunes Music Store, phan mem iTunes, cac thiet bi cho iPod va QuickTime Streaming cua Apple vi pham bang sang che cua ho. Burst.com tung thang Microsoft hoi nam 2005 trong mot vu kien tuong tu. Khi do Microsoft cung phai “hoa giai” bang 60 trieu USD.
Google bi Rates Technology kien vi “lo” ung dung mot phat minh cua hang nay trong phan mem Google Talk, con McAfee thi gap rac roi voi DeepNines. Ngay ca nhung hang phan mem ma mo nhu Red Hat cung khong thoat: FireStar buoc toi ho vi pham mot phat minh lien quan den cac phan mem huong doi tuong.
Trong khi do, the gioi phan cung cung khong he “em a”. Nha san xuat chip xu ly hang dau the gioi Intel vua quay lai toa hom 12-10 sau khi bi Transmeta buoc toi “an cap phat minh” va “gay thiet hai 100 ti USD”. Truoc do, it nhat Intel cung co hai lan phai nop phat vi toi “dung chua” vao thang 7-2001 va thang 3-2004 voi tong so tien phat len den gan 1 ti USD.
Hang san xuat chip xu ly do hoa (GPU) noi tieng nVidia cung bi Scanner Technologies kien vi da su dung thiet ke BGA (ball grid array) cua ho vao hom 19-9 vua qua.
Phan lon cac vu kien vi pham bang sang che xam hai quyen so huu phat minh duoc phap luat bao ve la do cac cong ty nho khoi xuong va ben bi kien la cac hang lon. Dac biet hon, theo thong ke cua Wikipedia thi co toi 99% so vu kien vi pham bang sang che ket thuc bang con duong hoa giai. Tat nhien la khong co su hoa giai nao mien phi!
Nhin lai nhung vu hoa giai ton kem cua Microsoft (2 ti USD de hoa giai voi Sun) hay Intel (1 ti USD de hoa giai voi Intergraph va MicroUnity), co the ket luan rang “tranh chap thi truong” moi la nguyen nhan chinh dan den “phong trao” khoi kien do “vi pham bang sang che” hien nay.
Khi cac cong ty nho khong du suc canh tranh, bi cac “dai gia” nuot dan thi phan thi mot trong nhung giai phap khon ngoan nhat chinh la... kien luon doi thu. Neu thang, ho se nhan duoc mot khoan tien boi thuong lon, du de on dinh tinh hinh tai chinh cua minh; con neu khong thang thi ho chang co gi de mat.
Tat nhien la con so “99% hoa giai” ma Wikipedia thong ke du de dam bao an toan cho “cac chang David ti hon” va con ac mong “vi pham bang sang che, xam hai quyen so huu phat minh” se con tiep tuc am anh “nhung ga khong lo Goliath” trong the gioi cong nghe thong tin. Theo TuoiTre Article source http://w4rum.com/170.t
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