Scotch Eggs and FRAND for Breakfast

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David Byrd
David Byrd is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer for Raven Guru Marketing. Previously, he was the CMO and EVP of Sales for CloudRoute. Prior to CloudRoute, He was CMO at ANPI, CMO & EVP of Sales at Broadvox, VP of channels and Alliances for Telcordia and Director of eBusiness development with i2 Technologies.He has also held executive positions with Planet Hollywood Online, Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computers, Sprint and Ericsson.
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Scotch Eggs and FRAND for Breakfast

Scotch Eggs and FRAND for Breakfast

I have been waiting for a neighborhood Irish bar to open for months. The place was suppose to open in September but was delayed until last week. I had perused the menu prior to going and decided I wanted Scotch Eggs along with something else (fish and chips was high on the list). Anyway, when I ordered the scotch eggs, the waitress said they had run out of them earlier in the week. That was confusing as since this was Friday, the kitchen/walk in refrigerator should have been restocked Thursday night in preparation for the weekend. Instead, I ordered gougѐres, a French cheese puff. Now these also contained pepperoni (which I thought odd). The pepperoni was minimal and chopped so finely it wasn’t discernable, and what should have been a light cheese puff was more like a heavy deep fried dough ball. Out of six, we ate ½ of two and without complaint or comment moved on to the next course (a burger and fish and chips). The chef came out to ask about the gougѐres and I gave my opinion about the need to be lighter with larger pieces of pepperoni. I also inquired about the Scotch eggs. It seems he was still working on the recipe so none would be available until he was satisfied. That said we enjoyed the rest of our meal and I wondered whether this was their original choice of chef. Sunday, I made beef short rib ragu (using fettuccini as the pasta) for dinner and, because I had to satisfy my hankering, Scotch Eggs for breakfast. Scotch eggs are hard-boiled eggs that are wrapped in sausage which is then breaded and deep fried. They are not the healthiest breakfast food but they are delicious. The recipe of the week is Scotch Eggs with a quick creamy dipping sauce. Enjoy!

FRAND

Last week I learned a new acronym FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And NonDiscriminatory). You may recall that one of the reasons Google purchased Motorola Mobility was for its valuable patents. Google was very disappointed in losing the bidding war for the Nortel patents and its response was to purchase Motorola Mobility. Well, it has not taken long for them to leverage the value of these patents. Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50 for 50 patents required to implement the H. 264 video standard. Interestingly, H.264 requires the licensing of over 2300 patents from 29 different companies. The total amount the other 28 companies require in licensing fees is $0.02 or two cents. Therein lies the problem. Without understanding all of the issues involved in the case, Motorola’s position does not appear to be FRAND. Both the US Department of Justice and European Commission have expressed concern with Motorola’s position. These organizations are involved because the H.264 was adopted as a standard based upon previous promises and commitments by the owners of the various patents. The standard would not exist without the agreement of all to license these standard essential patents in a FRAND way.

One view is that the actions of Motorola will kill video over the Internet. I won’t go that far. However, I do wonder what the real objective is.

 

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