{"id":9419,"date":"2011-09-01T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/mobile-patent-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:44:01","slug":"mobile-patent-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/mobile-patent-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Patent Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/07\/11\/how-patent-trolling-taxes-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-100380 \" title=\"Mobile Patent Warfare\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/patent_troll-6.jpg?resize=74%2C74&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mobile Patent Warfare\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/patent_troll-6.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/patent_troll-6.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/patent_troll-6.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 74px) 100vw, 74px\" \/><\/a>One of the hobbies i have taken up is <strong><a title=\"www.forbes.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ciocentral\/2011\/08\/09\/turn-the-tables-on-patent-trolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patent troll<\/a> watching.<\/strong> Thanks to <a title=\"flowingdata.com\" href=\"https:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Flowing Data<\/em><\/a> for <a title=\"flowingdata.com\" href=\"https:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/08\/22\/mobile-patent-lawsuits-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointing out<\/a> work by <a title=\"bost.ocks.org\/mike\" href=\"http:\/\/bost.ocks.org\/mike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Bostock<\/a> which v<strong>isualizes the data of who is suing who<\/strong> in the <strong>mobile <a title=\"www.uspto.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patent<\/a> warfare<\/strong> battles. To see a live version of this data network go to the <a title=\"bl.ocks.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bl.ocks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>bl.ocks.org<\/em><\/a> website <a title=\"bl.ocks.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bl.ocks.org\/1153292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bl.ocks.org\/1153292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium wp-post-image aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Moblie patent suits\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flowingdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Moblie-patent-suits.png?resize=480%2C314\" alt=\"Moblie patent suits\" width=\"480\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-100382 \" title=\"Apple Computers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/apple_logo2-1.jpg?resize=72%2C77&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple Computers\" width=\"72\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/apple_logo2-1.jpg?w=106&amp;ssl=1 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/apple_logo2-1.jpg?resize=70%2C75&amp;ssl=1 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 72px) 100vw, 72px\" \/><\/a>The data on this chart indicates that Apple is at the heart of mobile patent warfare. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ : AAPL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-AAPL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AAPL<\/a>) has been involved in 9 patent lawsuits. Other prodigious mobile patent litigators include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ : MSFT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-MSFT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSFT<\/a>) with 8 lawsuits, <a title=\"Kodak\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodak.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kodak<\/a> (<a title=\"NYSE : EK\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NYSE-KODK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KODK<\/a>) with 7 suits, and newly created <a title=\"Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ : GOOG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-GOOG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GOOG<\/a>)\/Motorola union is involved in 5 mobile patent warfare skirmishes.<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/google-gets-18-key-patents-from-12-5-billion-motorola-deal-22173400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google gets 18 key patents from $12.5 billion Motorola deal<\/a> (slashgear.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111118152756\/http:\/\/247wallst.com:80\/2011\/08\/17\/patent-trolling-kodak-next-up-ek-goog-mmi-aapl-msft-rimm-emc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patent Trolling: Kodak Next Up (EK, GOOG, MMI, AAPL, MSFT, RIMM, EMC)<\/a> (247wallst.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/08\/22\/microsoft-google-motorola-patent-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google&#8217;s patent plot thickens with new Microsoft lawsuit against Motorola Mobility<\/a> (venturebeat.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest data indicates that Apple is at the heart of the mobile patent warfare AAPL followed by MSFT Kodak and the newly created GOOG\/Motorola union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[3045,420,101,723,536,92,279,82,431,340,421,56],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","tag-3045","tag-aapl","tag-apple","tag-eastman-kodak","tag-goog","tag-google","tag-lawsuit","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile","tag-motorola","tag-msft","tag-patents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131750,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/131750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}