David Drummond, vice president of corporate development and general counsel of Google, just use your company blog to publicly criticize the opponent deliberately hindering the Android development platform as well as obstructing free competition . According to Drummond, he is witnessing the establishment of a coordinated campaign to suppress the Android platform. Among the organizers of this campaign are Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and their way is the acquisition of patents of other firms to use as a weapon to attack competitors, according to Drummond.
To set the example, Drummond led the auction results of the patent of the company Nortel and Novell. In the first group CPTN companies, including Microsoft and Apple has won. And in the second group wins auction is Rockstar, which also has Microsoft and Apple. The competition was linked to “not to patent fall into the hands of Google,” Drummond wrote.
The goal of these plans, according to lawyers, simply do the production Android smartphone becomes more expensive, forcing suppliers to pay right to use the patent in which more than Phone use Windows 7 … In May 7 / 2011, the press, said Microsoft had asked Samsung to pay 15 USD for each device that uses Android’s patented Microsoft, instead of only $ 10 if using patented restraints on the Microsoft platform. The company HTC suffering with Apple event for next year that will replace the technology in their devices to avoid lawsuits.
A reminder that, more than 880 patent was acquired by Novell in the last year for $ 450 million general. In addition to Microsoft and Apple, in this business group also includes Oracle and EMC. And, Oracle is suing Google violating the patent technology in Java using the Android platform. Google said Oracle did not have patents on these technologies.
Last month, the agreement deals than 6,000 patents (including patent applications) of the company Nortel bankruptcy was announced. Group of Companies to purchase the patent was paid to 4.5 billion USD. Not difficult to guess they need to patent what to do – is to “squeeze almost blocked throat” other companies, according to Drummond, as the price of the auction starting at only 4.5 times lower Last sale price only.
Competition with companies like Google to use two methods. First, use the law (Google hopes the U.S. government in time to understand their arguments and actions to prevent the transactions mentioned above), and No. 2 is to increase the portfolio of their own patents. For example, nearly two weeks ago, the company has purchased nearly 1,000 of the IBM patents, including patent applications, although they are primarily related to the search technology. Many other companies such as HTC also come under this Plan.
Introduced for the first time since 2007, Android is a platform having a radial fastest smartphone market promising. According to Canalys, in quarter 2 / 2011, supply of equipment Android has increased 379% over the same period last year, allows Android accounted for 48% of the global market. Smartphone is the main engine of world mobile terminals – the official information, there are currently more than 550,000 Android smartphone is active every day. According to IMS Research, in 2011, one third of mobile phone is smart, and end in 2016, the smartphone will be half the number of mobile phones worldwide.
Source:vietnamandroid.com
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