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Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung, Microsoft… it’s hard to name a technology company that’s not currently involved in a patent battle with another firm. Google’s general counsel Kent Walker thinks the legal battles could actually hurt consumers and the landscape of today’s ever changing smartphone market. “The tech industry has a significant problem,” Walker said. “Software patents are kind of gumming up the works of innovation.” Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently said that his company will stand behind HTC, one of its Android partners, in an attempt to ensure it doesn’t lose an ongoing patent battle with Apple. “We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market and, because of our successes, competitors are responding with lawsuits as they cannot respond through innovations,” Schmidt said. According to Bloomberg, Walker said that Google is looking to purchase patents that will allow it to compete better against its rivals, such as Apple. It is unclear what acquisitions Google will pursue in an effort to bolster its patent portfolio, but there is speculation the search giant will buy Kodak’s InterDigital arm. ?Each side can blow the other up on some level –everybody can block the other?s products from coming to market,? Walker said. ?You create this mutually assured destruction scenario, but it?s very expensive to get all those munitions. Buying patents so you can hit the other guy, it?s not good form. You hate to unilaterally disarm here, but we haven?t in our history.? Walker said that he’s confident Google has the muscle to “balance the scales” against the likes of Microsoft and Apple.
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The Entertainment Software Association has confirmed to Gamasutra that its General Counsel, Kenneth Doroshow, has left the organization to join forces with Burford Group, an investment advising firm based in Washington D.C.. You might [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Jan-2011 by Griffin McElroy in ab-1179emaesageneral-counselkenneth-doroshowlawpoliticsSchwarzenegger-v-EMAsupreme-court
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| Google: Microsoft extorts profits, hinders innovation and is failing in smartphone market | | Google issued an irate response to Microsoft’s cross-licensing agreement with Samsung, announced early Wednesday, in which Samsung will pay royalties to Microsoft for each Android smartphone sold. “This is the same tactic we?ve seen time and again from Microsoft,” Google said in a statement to TechCrunch. “Failing to succeed in the smartphone market, they are resorting to l [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Sep-2011 by Todd Haselton in LegalMobileAndroidextortgoogleHTClicensemicrosoftrepsonseRoyaltiesSamsungWindows Phone
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| Google hates smartphone patent wars, but buys 1,000 new patents to go to war | | Google?s general counsel Kent Walker apparently doesn’t see eye to eye with the rest of his company. ?The tech industry has a significant problem,? Walker said earlier this week. ?Software patents are kind of gumming up the works of innovation.? According to SEO by the Sea however, Google purchased 1,030 patents from IBM just two weeks before Walker made those comments. According to the repo [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Jul-2011 by Zach Epstein in
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| Sony patents software-based PS2 CPU emulation | 
In Sony's on-again/off-again relationship with PS2 backwards compatibility on the PS3, we've had our hopes raised to the stars and dashed again more times than we imagined possible. Today, Siliconera discovered what appears [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Jun-2009 by Ben Gilbert in backwards-compatibilitybackwardscompatibilityemotion-engineemulationpatentsceasony
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| Apple, RIM sued by software maker Openwave over patents |  Openwave Systems has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple and Research In Motion with a Delaware federal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Openwave believes products from both firms infringe on five patents related to how “mobile devices connect to the internet,” Bloomberg reports. The iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry Curve were [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Aug-2011 by Todd Haselton in LegalSoftwareApplelawsuitOpenwavepatent infringementResearch in MotionRIMsue
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| Intel to buy 190 patents and video codec software from RealNetworks for $120 million |  Intel and RealNetworks announced on Thursday that Intel will purchase video codec software, 190 patents and 170 patent applications from RealNetworks for a total of $120 million. “We believe this agreement enhances our ability to continue to offer richer experiences and innovative solutions to end users across a wide spectrum of devices, including through Ultrabook devices, smartphones and d [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Jan-2012 by Todd Haselton in BusinessAcquireaudio codecintelpatent pendingpatentsPurchaseRealNetworkss Real
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