今天上午，在芝加哥联邦法庭上，苹果和摩托罗拉的律师在著名法官理查德波斯纳（Richard A.Posner）面前出庭，试图解释为什么**应该下令禁止对方的产品。波斯纳最近登上了头条，因为他暂时驳回了此案，最终决定给双方一个机会，证明任何一方已经证明有必要对另一方的产品实施禁令，以阻止销售和发货，无论是现在还是将来。

目前，正在审理的案件涉及苹果公司的四项专利：

• 6493002-覆盖一个状态窗口，如通知窗口，位于常规程序/应用程序显示窗口顶部，具有一个或多个交互式图标或显示模块。
• 6343263-包括信号处理API，如视频图像处理，允许两个或多个子系统之间的实时交互。
• 7479949-涵盖多维滚动启发式。例如，一个向上或向下的手指轻扫开始沿一个角度路径，这不是完全垂直，仍将被解释和锁定为一个纯粹的垂直运动，以防止水平滚动。
• 5946647-这是臭名昭著的“数据窃听”专利，可以自动将电话号码和电子邮件地址等内容转换为可操作的链接，从而打开选项菜单，如拨打电话号码或将电话号码添加到联系人列表中。

与此同时，摩托罗拉正在申请美国专利6359898，这项专利经常被称为“倒计时专利”，并涉及一些被认为是GSM必不可少的标准的蜂窝通信效率调整。

“太好了，这就是我们所需要的，新衣服。在全球范围内，苹果和所有安卓**商之间的诉讼还不够多。”

波斯纳在听证会上没有做出任何裁决，相反，他用了大约两个小时的时间询问了双方的问题，并对双方在本周早些时候提交的案情摘要进行了澄清。这位法官以活跃、娱乐和容易被案件细节挫败而赢得了声誉，他在与苹果律师的交流中再次发表了讲话。波斯纳询问库珀蒂诺为何不满意强制许可计划，该计划要求摩托罗拉为一项或多项被指控侵权的专利一次性支付和/或持续支付专利使用费，而不是直接下达禁令，他说，这可能会给侵权公司带来“真正灾难性的影响”：

Posner: "So would you be asking for an injunction that would give them three months to substitute real-time..."

Apple: "Exactly. We're not asking them to stop selling Android phones, we're asking them to do something that they've said they could easily do. Use their technology, not ours."

Posner: "Would you c***ider an ongoing royalty as a satisfactory substitute?"

Apple: "No."

Posner: "Why not?"

Apple: "The law says" that companies should not be subject to compulsory licensing. [Paraphrasing.]

Posner: "That's not what the law says. The law says that it's a type of injunctive relief."

[...]

Posner: "You can't just assume that just because someone has a patent, he has deep moral right to exclude everyone else from using it. That's why we have this principle that the equity judge can substitute a compulsory license for an injunction."

Apple: "The practical reason is the difficulty in measuring harm. None of the party's attempts to measure what such a royalty would be are adequate."

Posner: "But that's because you didn't prepare a good damages case. You certainly believe it's possible to compute damages for the infringement today, so why doesn't that apply that you could've established a reasonable royalty for the future?"

Apple: "The right to exclude is something that shouldn't be taken away lightly."

Posner: "Well, you think you have a right to Motorola's patents because they're standards-essential..." After three months, Motorola comes up with its own solution, and you have nothing. With licensing, you establish a stream of income. [Paraphrasing.]

Apple: "Respectfully, it's the patent holder's choice."

Posner: "But you have to explain to me why it's a rational choice. [Laughing.] "What's to prevent you after three months from suing them again and saying it's still infringing?"

Apple: We can file a new suit. [Paraphrasing.]

Posner: "Great, that's all we need, new suits. There aren't enough lawsuits worldwide between Apple and all the Android manufacturers."

摩托罗拉只对苹果提出了一项专利要求，即所谓的“898专利”，这是GSM所必需的，苹果表示，该专利过去曾根据FRAND条款授权给几十家公司。波斯纳直言不讳地说，他没有“明白如何才能禁止使用标准基本专利”。用苹果的话来说，这项专利已经成为摩托罗拉对其专利申请的“最后一站”。不过，有趣的是，苹果表示，898标准只是名义上的必要标准，声称它定义的功能实际上没有在实践中使用，而且“有效值为零”：

"Here we have a feature with an effective value of zero. That's the sole benefit that the '898 in theory provides, is that the base station might have a little bit more advance notice to reallocate its resources and be more efficient. That supposed benefit of the 898 patent is not used by the base station to do so. There are no benefits from it because they don't use that feature at all. They reallocate resources when the countdown timer is zero. So here you have this feature whose value is infinitesimally **all [...] this is attempted extortion and an attempt to drive up the value, which is zero."

“这里我们有一个有效值为零的特征。”

尽管波斯纳今天没有举手就离开了法庭，但他对禁制令是一种适当的救济这一观点表示了怀疑，认为全面禁止销售将是对那些很少有客户关心的功能的严厉惩罚，这些功能可能足以影响对两家公司的“善意”。谈到苹果的002专利——这项专利可以追溯到1994年，由于Android的通知窗口在视觉上不受其他应用程序的阻碍，它可能会被侵犯——波斯纳说“我觉得很难相信有人会关心这样的事情”，并指出“这可能只是消费者的一个小烦恼，也许我们应该为千分之一的顾客付一点版税。那就好了。”

目前还没有迹象表明波斯纳何时会做出最终裁决。

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