British Telecom (BT) Is Hating On Android, Sues Google Over Six Patents [updated]

It looks like British Telecom is not liking Google's deserts. According to FOSS Patent. British Telecom sued Google in Delaware over six patents. BT claim Google's Mobile OS Android infringes patents related to maps, navigation and even music.

UPDATED: To include lawsuit papers and to add that it seems BT is looking for a cheap stake on Google by claiming the overlay broad patents that is asserting against Google are used by most of Google services like Google Search, Android, AdSense, Gmail, Google+, Google Docs, Google Music and Google Maps.

See the the lawsuit text embedded below.

11-12-15 BT v Google Complaint

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Lawsuits In The Mobile Space: Who Is Suing Who Infographic

Last year we publish a chart (here) showing who were suing who in the mobile phone market. Well here we have an updated version thank you to Reuters.

Like you can see the only change from last year has been an increase in the lawsuit and the complexity. Apple still the largest target of incoming lawsuit but also the largest source of outgoing ones.

There is no wonder why so many people are asking for a patent reform as each day more and more patent lawsuit are launched in most cases with over broad claims and the only thing they are causing is a lack of innovation.

Apple & Google To Fight For InterDigital Inc [patents]

After Apple and a consortium beat Google to the Nortel Patent auction by paying $4.5 billions Google started to look elsewhere.

And it dint took long to find someone else. Because InterDigital Inc a King of Prussia, PA company with over 1,300 patents in the mobile space started looking for suitors as IP in mobile are so saw after.

But things may get messy again. According to Bloomberg Apple is also looking at InterDigital and its patent. Wish the company claim are more stronger than that's of Nortel.

If Google wants to get back in the game they will need to pay big money for InterDigital and if Apple counter bid someone may end overpaying and I bet this time it will be Google.

I just hope Google gets this one. As it will strength Android against Apple, Oracle & Microsoft. That in turn will make Apple innovate faster and I really like that.

I don't give a heck about WP7 but I want iOS and Android to thrive. That will give Apple user like my self a better iPhone and Android user like my daughter a better Android.

Apple Fires Back At Motorola Sues Over Multi-touch Patent

 
 Today Apple fires back at Motorola. If you remember last moth Motorola sued Apple claiming Apple violated some 26 patents relating to most thing on the iPhone including antenna, app store, mobile me etc etc.

Well Apple decided to fire back at Motorola filing two patent infringement suit covering six patents all related to multi-touch.

This is just the latest lawsuit filed in the mobile space in the last couple of moths. See our article "Mobile Space Market Who IS Suing Who?"

This suit was more than expected as tech companies usually fire back at lawsuits brought to them by counter suing.

What is interesting is that by Apple filing this lawsuit is effectively suing the two largest handset makers that uses Android HTC and Motorola.

At some point Google will have to step-up and in some way defend or indemnify its partners or risk loosing its Android momentum as manufactures move to less liable OS like Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

The Patents In questions Are:

• 7,812,828, Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces
• 7,663,607, Multipoint Touchscreen
• 5,379,430, Object-Oriented System Locator System
• 7,497,949, Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics
• 6,493,002, Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Accessing Control and Status Information in a Computer System
• 5,838,315, Support for Custom User-Interaction Elements in a Graphical, Event-Driven Computer System

Smartphone Market; Who is suing who?

via desinglanguage.comLawsuits in the smartphone market are flying all over the place. But who are the suitors and who is been sued?

As of October 8th 2010:

Nokia is by far the biggest lawsuit friendly with eight outgoing lawsuits while been sue by two others.

Kodak follows Nokia with five outgoing lawsuits and no incoming.

Apple is the number one target been sued by five while suing two others.

Motorola has three incoming and one outgoing.

Sharp has three incoming and no outgoing.

Qualacomm has one outgoing and one incoming both against Nokia.

Oracle is suing Google, Google is not suing anyone (yet)

Rim has two outgoing lawsuits. No one is suing them.

Microsoft has one outgoing against Motorola.

Sony-Ericsson, Toshiba and Hitachi each have one incoming lawsuit with no outgoing.

HTC & Elan each has one outgoing lawsuit both against Apple.

While many of this patent lawsuit have overlapping claims and the outcome is hard to predict one thing is for sure. The end user will be the big loser because manufactures will pass them their legal and licensing fees witch will result in an even higher price on future handsets.