Operating System Android
EP the company wants to armor itself before the litigations by violation of patents. This new purchase includes patents that go from servants and hardware, to computer science security or design of circuits. Within this strategy, Google acquired in August Motorola Mobility. Google has acquired more than 1,000 patents of the IBM manufacturer, like part of its movements to fortify its strategy. Of this form, Google reinforces its shield in front of the litigations that several companies have realised against Android by infringement of patents, many of them coming from Apple. The agreement took place the 17 of August, according to sample the legal document of the office of patents of the United States in which the movement has been registered now, but at the moment the price is not known by which Google has carried out the acquisition. This new purchase includes patents that go from servants and hardware, to computer science security, design of circuits, authentication of users, et cetera.
The company also acquired 1,000 patents of IBM the past month of July, strategy that it extended in the middle of August with the purchase of Motorola Mobility by 8,724 million Euros, a movement that would assign 17,000 licenses to him. In addition, it transferred several licenses to HTC, acquired in 2010 to companies like Palm or Motorola. This sale took place 1 of September the past, and the manufacturer of used them to moving bodies to again demand to Apple the past week. With this demand, HTC tried to prevent the import and product sale of Apple that infringed the patents in the United States, besides receiving a compensation by damages and damages by deliberate infraction. Google is not the unique company that has been armored of licenses.
In the middle of July, several companies, among them Apple, Microsoft and RIM, acquired but of 6,000 patents to Nortel Networks – that was declared in bankruptcy in January of the 2009 – by 4,500 million dollars (3,240 million Euros). In fact, Apple won this week the abierta legal battle with Samsung in Germany, obtaining that this could not sell his tablets Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Galaxy devices are considered like the rival majors for products of Apple, and apparently, tablet of touch screen of Samsung has a design too similar to iPad of Apple. The acquisition of patents has become very important assets for the companies that move in more and more competitive a technological market. In this way, Google has secured an ample arsenal of licenses, necessary to support to the manufacturers of its operating system Android, before the war of patents that is taking place in the sector. Source of the news: Google buys more than 1,000 patents of IBM to protect its operating system Android
