Submitted by “At first glance, it looks as if we’re in the middle of a patent lawsuit Super Bowl party. Nearly every large mobile phone player – with the exception of Microsoft, Palm and, so far, Google – has recently been involved in some sort of patent litigation regarding mobile technologies.”
Not all of them are patent related, like most of Nokias lawsuits are about price fixing around LCD displays, just Qualcomm (settled) and Apple where IP related.
And for Kodak the picture is wrong they sued both Apple and RIM but there is just one arrow.
And why did they leave out interdigital?
It IS the “Wild West” out there. Everybody trying to stake a claim while they can.
<deep sigh>Jesus cries</deep sigh>…
Instead of spending much efforts in standardisations, data exchange standards, and so on…
They are playing like little brats in a schoolyard.
Well most of the established players works hard on standardizations like the micro-USB charger is one example of the improvement, and all key players back one 4G standard (LTE Advance).
IP lawsuits are practiced when talks about licensing technology breakdown.
I found this link on http://digg.com/software/Software_patents_should_only_be_valid_for_… .
http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/this_apple_htc_patent_thing
I thought it was an interesting read.
Edited 2010-03-05 20:33 UTC