“In a bid to protect its patents related to Android and partners using the platform, Google Inc. recently filed a lawsuit against Rockstar,” Zacks Equity Research writes for Yahoo Finance. “Google has asked the San Jose court to declare that its Nexus group of devices does not violate any intellectual property of Rockstar.”
“Earlier, Rockstar had accused Google and its partners of infringing seven patents, which it bought from bankrupt Canadian company Nortel in 2012. Rockstar is a consortium formed by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Ericsson and Sony,” Zack writes. “Rockstar is a patent holding NPE (non-practicing entity). In 2012, Rockstar spent $4.5 billion, of which $2.5 billion came from Apple itself, to buy a number of patents owned by the defunct Nortel.”
“[Rockstar] is filing lawsuit against the likes of Samsung, Asus, HTC and other device makers who use Android platform,” Zack writes. “However, Google’s attempt to save its partners may face procedural headwinds, as in the case of Cisco whose attempt to save its customers from patent violation claims in April this year was overruled by a federal court”
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