Motorola thinks charges against other companies selling Android devices

Sanjay Jha, PD G Motorola has just declared that his company was studying the possibility of imposing royalties to manufacturers of mobile phones and tablets. The firm could turn against other companies selling the Android devices. Until now, only people outside the project attacked the Google operating system.

The statements of Mr. Jha threw a cat among the pigeons. This is not the first time he says he wants to join the saga of the summer that includes Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Google, Samsung, HTC, and others. All these companies file complaints against each other, asking for royalties or conspire to purchase patent portfolios with billions of dollars.

HTC's Android could be banned after the victory of Apple

Last Friday, the U.S. international trade commission ruled that the smartphones HTC violated two patents from Apple regarding the processing of multimedia content and processing of information from an email. Florian Mueller, an analyst for the blog FOSS Patents believes that both technologies have their roots in the operating system from Google and not from HTC codes, which could be very damaging to the editor.

AU Optronics attack Samsung for patent infringement

If you believe the information gathered by the Wall Street Journal, the Taiwanese manufacturer AU Optronics would attack South Korean rival Samsung Electronics on several patent infringement related technologies LCD and OLED. Earlier this month, Samsung is attacking AU Optronics for the same reasons ...

If one believes AUO, it is not less than 10 patents that Samsung infringed. The manufacturer therefore requests the ITC (International Trade Commission) to block imports and sales on American soil of products made by Samsung and violating those patents. But it would be surprising, however, that the different between the two companies ends other than by an arrangement "amicably."

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Apple pays Nokia to halt trial

A press release from Nokia says Apple has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum and royalties on sales of certain of its products during a secret. In exchange, the companies will drop all legal proceedings they had begun. In short, Nokia will also benefit from sales of the iPhone and iPad. In 2009, Nokia decided to make a complaint against Apple, saying that the iPhone violated ten of its patents.

Microsoft loses his lawsuit against i4i

After four years of court battles, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled Microsoft had indeed violated a patent held by the company i4i, introduced in 1994 which explains the "methods and systems to handle separately the architecture and content of a document. " The editor has indeed used the patented algorithms to read and write files.

XML,. Docx or. COMC in its Word 2003 and 2007 More exactly, the Supreme Court found inadmissible the recent complaint filed by Microsoft, the latter demanding that the process of presentation of evidence of invalidity of a patent based on the prevalence of evidence, not on a clear and indisputable as is the case today.

3 years later, Microsoft is appealing the fine

The history of legal troubles for Microsoft with the European Commission is complex, but you will recall that the software giant was convicted in February 2008 to a record fine of 899 million euros for abusing its dominant position. Microsoft had quickly appealed, arguing that the excessive and disproportionate to the amount that was in addition to two previous fines of 497 and 281 million euros.

France will block the lnternet without the approval of the judge

The decision of the Constitutional Council on the law Loppsi 2 has just been released and while many important articles were censored, the measure for filtering pornography sites without the approval of the judge was upheld. The Sages have maintained article 4 of the Act which provides that the need to fight against pedophilia on the Internet can cause blocking of websites, but necessary move before a judge.