“A handful of cable companies are suing a coalition of tech firms that controls the rights to more than 4,000 patents,” Julian Hattem reports for The Hill.
“In a document filed with the U.S. District Court for Delaware on Friday, Charter Communications, Suddenlink and other cable firms said that lawsuits and threats from the Rockstar coalition over patent rights it owns ‘have cast a cloud of uncertainty’ over their operations,” Hattem reports. “The cable companies’ complaints echo those of Google, which has accused Rockstar of an aggressive campaign to push its products out of the market.”
“Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion are part of the Rockstar coalition. The cable companies claimed that the group has used the rights it owns to unfairly target other businesses to extract high fees,” Hattem reports. “Rockstar and its subsidiaries have previously sued Time Warner Cable and Google for infringing on its patents.”
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