Mobile market litigation

    An interesting picture was published today in the New York Times. The arrows in the figure show the claims of IT companies against each other.

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    In defense of Apple and the heated discussion of their lawsuit on HTC, it is worth saying that almost all well-known companies at one time or another argued about copyright infringement. Unnoticed in the "mobile" cases were only Google, Palm and Microsoft.

    For example, last year Elan Microelectronics was sued by Apple for allegedly violating patent rights to the touch screen. Nokia sued LG, Samsung, Apple by other companies. Kodak argued with LG, Apple, Samsung, Sharp, Sony Ericsson

    Although patent lawsuits in the IT business are not uncommon, their so increased number among mobile technologies suggests that this niche is now quite promising. So companies are trying to grab a piece of the pie a little more.

    An interesting statement was made by Eric Gippel, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to him, earlier during such trials the parties tried to resolve disputes peacefully, now a wave of “patent trolls” has surged when companies are not interested in using patents, but only want to sue more money as a result of the trial.

    via New York Times

    P.S. The article was found and translated by a grubby chater , so ask all the pluses and questions to him

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