Google wants to buy the Canadian company Nortel telephony in bankruptcy. In its corporate blog, the company's search engine is an explanation of the reasons that led it to bid on the portfolio of patents from the Canadian government company. According to Cnet, it's 6,000 patents for which Google would pay $ 900 million in cash.
According to Google, "the technological world has recently seen an explosion of patent litigation," often based on software patents of low quality but that threaten innovation. In some cases, the complaints are presented by companies that are not creating anything. In others, it is maneuvering to block a competitor or take advantage of their success.
Google believes that the system favors patent protection and litigation dubious favors a revision of the "for consumers and the U.S. economy." But the reality is that this increase in litigation and that there is greater protection against them is to have a broad portfolio of patents, arguing continues.
Although Google has a growing number of them, his youth as a company prevent him from having the patent portfolio from other large companies. The purchase of Nortel's patents could serve to "discourage" Google claims against third parties and "help our partners and the open source community." It is in this final reference where the reason for the movement of bulk purchase of patents.
Google operating systems for mobile phones and laptops, Android and Chrome, under open source license, is being pursued in court by other companies who believe that infringe patents owned. Oracle has sued Google directly by the use of a Java virtual machine Android carefully considering the Sun patents, which was acquired by Oracle.
Paul Allen, founder of Microsoft, has filed a lawsuit against Google, Apple and Yahoo for a patent issue. And Apple has a lawsuit in U.S. court against the handset maker HTC, accusing him of violating twenty patents in the hands of the manufacturer of iPhone. The lawsuit against Google is indirectly, to the extent that HTC phones are equipped with Android.
Microsoft itself, without taking any legal initiative, said that the Android operating system infringes patents owned.
According to Google, "the technological world has recently seen an explosion of patent litigation," often based on software patents of low quality but that threaten innovation. In some cases, the complaints are presented by companies that are not creating anything. In others, it is maneuvering to block a competitor or take advantage of their success.
Google believes that the system favors patent protection and litigation dubious favors a revision of the "for consumers and the U.S. economy." But the reality is that this increase in litigation and that there is greater protection against them is to have a broad portfolio of patents, arguing continues.
Although Google has a growing number of them, his youth as a company prevent him from having the patent portfolio from other large companies. The purchase of Nortel's patents could serve to "discourage" Google claims against third parties and "help our partners and the open source community." It is in this final reference where the reason for the movement of bulk purchase of patents.
Google operating systems for mobile phones and laptops, Android and Chrome, under open source license, is being pursued in court by other companies who believe that infringe patents owned. Oracle has sued Google directly by the use of a Java virtual machine Android carefully considering the Sun patents, which was acquired by Oracle.
Paul Allen, founder of Microsoft, has filed a lawsuit against Google, Apple and Yahoo for a patent issue. And Apple has a lawsuit in U.S. court against the handset maker HTC, accusing him of violating twenty patents in the hands of the manufacturer of iPhone. The lawsuit against Google is indirectly, to the extent that HTC phones are equipped with Android.
Microsoft itself, without taking any legal initiative, said that the Android operating system infringes patents owned.
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