Friday, November 1, 2013

Apple Backed Rockstar Patent Consortium Sues Google and Samsung Over Nortel Patents

The Rockstar patent consortium consisting of Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony has sued Google with patents purchased from Nortel for $4.5 billion.


It appears that efforts to license the patents to Google have failed and at least eight lawsuits have been filed in the Eastern District of Texas: separate actions against Google, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, LG, HTC, Pantech, and ASSUTeK. Foss Patents notes that Google's $4.4 billion bid for the patents could be a serious problem for the company as this validates the portfolio in a commercially meaningful way. 
More at iHash.eu

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