Sony adds to the long list of mobile phone manufacturers who demand a competitor for patent infringement. The U.S. has made against LG in court in Los Angeles, reports Reuters. Demand for Sony affects ten models of LG, including Encore, Rumor Touch and Neon, among others. The company sought to prevent their sale in the U.S..The patents relate to audio systems and transmissions. LG has sold two million units of its popular smartphone, the Optimus One The clash over patent issues between manufacturers of mobile phones is not exactly unprecedented. Motorola accused Apple of infringing 18 of its inventions in the multimedia player iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad tablet and some Macintosh computers.
But Motorola had been accused by Nokia and Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry devices, with violating several of its patents when it was sued by her former partner in this business, Microsoft, for infringing nine of his tenure with Motorola's new handsets, that work with Android. Google and Oracle have kept their own litigation and Apple is faced with HTC, which also bid for the mobile operating system from Google, Android.
At this junction of lawsuits, Nokia takes the cake: it has sued seven other companies, Qualcomm, Motorola, LG, Hitachi. Sharp, Toshiba and Samsung, "followed by the Kodak Picture Label, which is complaint with five other companies for patents on digital imaging.
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