by Kenny Hemphill
on 15 August 2011
in News
Google has filed a request with the USPTO to ask it to re-examine two patents held by intellectual property firm, Lodsys. It has asked for an assessment on whether the patents at the heart of the dispute between Lodsys and app developers are valid.
Google senior vide president and general counsel, Kent Walker told Wired.com: ‘We’ve asked the US Patent Office to reexamine two Lodsys patents that we believe should never have been issued. Developers play a critical part in the Android ecosystem and Google will continue to support them.’
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by Kenny Hemphill
on 4 August 2011
in News
Google has attacked Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle for imposing what it calls a patent ‘tax’ on Android customers.
In a post on the Official Google Blog, David Drummond, the company’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, said that Android’s success had ‘yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.’
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Has Samsung really overtaken Apple in the smartphone market?
by Kenny Hemphill on 31 October 2011 in CommentThere’s been a great deal written over the last few days about Samsung apparently overtaking Apple to become the world’s biggest smartphone handset manufacturer by sales volume. But is it really true?