Since I explained about intellectual property protection as what we have learned in class,I would like to talk about mobile patent wars as another subject we learned from Professor Efrat Kasznik's lecture.
Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Xiaomi, and HTC. The "smart phone wars" is literally having a conflict over the patents between multinational technology and software corporations.
Comapnise have granted a patent that can sue other companies to prevent them from using the moethods the patent covers to increase their market share. Due to this, the number of lawsuits, counter-suits, and trade complaints based on patents and designs has increased significantly.
Here is the timeline that I picked to show major events, initial suits, counter-suits, rulings, license agreements from 2009 to 2013.
2009
October 22: Nokia sues Apple over 10 patents
December 11: Apple countersues Nokia over 12 pantest
December 29: Nokia files a second lawsuit
2010
January 15: Apple files against Nokia over 9 patents
March 2: Apple sues HTC over 10 pantest
April 27: HTC signs an agreement with Microsoft to license Microsoft patents
2011
January 25: Microsoft counterclaims against Motorola, asserting 2 patents
June 22: apple countersues Samsung in South Korea over an unknown number of patents
July 1: ITC rules that APple infringes on 2 patents held by S3 Graphics
2012
June 1: Samsung files an appeal aginst APple's injucton against the Galaxy Nexus
July 2: Nokia clams that the Nexus 7 infringes on its patents
July 4: A high court in the UK rules that three of the four patents Apple brought up against HTC are invalid
2013
June: ITC rules iPads infringe on Samsung patents
August: ITC ruling from June vetoed , ITC blocks older Samsung phones for violating two Apple patents
December 23: Google initiates legal action against Rockstar Consortium
Hi Tiffany! This is a great post that summarizes mobile patent wars in the US. I really like this dynamic between giant corporation on patent litigation - it's like a child's game! I like the example where Nokia sues Apple over 10 patents, then Apple countersues Nokia with the other 12 patent infringement. It almost seems childish, except that there is a lot of money involved!
ReplyDeleteGreat summary of the mobile patent wars! The first graphic you showed really illustrated how complicated the battles got! Everyone was fighting everyone else! I like the timeline as well, really good job!
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