Android crazy patent war historical records

In the future, Android may be regarded as a beauty in the tech industry who has set off the vast poems of Iliad. Helen: This system has triggered thousands of lawsuits.

Screenshot of Helen in the movie "Trojan"

Today, we seem to hear every week that Android-based tablet devices and smartphones are involved in patent infringement cases. Because the patent war on Android has a long history, we have made an intuitive timetable to help you review which companies have sued Android vendors, and how Google handles these litigation cases.

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　　March 2010

Apple sued HTC to bring the world to the vigorous "big lawsuit" era, in which 20 patents were alleged to have been infringed. At that time, Apple said these entries were in conflict with the iPhone's "user interface and underlying smartphone architecture and hardware" patent.

　　April 2010

At this time, Microsoft launched its first wave of flash sales against Android patents. Specifically, the company announced that HTC, the mobile phone manufacturer, had issued a written agreement, agree to pay Microsoft the licensing fee for the distribution of Android devices. At this time, Microsoft, like Sony Ericsson, has officially started a license agreement negotiation with Android vendors.

　　August 2010

Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google again. The company believes that Google's use of Java programming language in the Android system constitutes a patent infringement.

　　October 2010

Microsoft dropped Motorola, which sells Android phones, on suspicion of infringing Microsoft's patents. Hsf-io Gutierrez, Chief Legal Adviser to Microsoft, said that the controversial patent project involves the core technology of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, there are also small details like the icons that show signal strength and battery power on the screen. Microsoft also bought more than a dozen patents in the smartphone field from palm to further strengthen its patent portfolio in the smartphone field.

　　November 2010

Vertical computer systems has officially become a new member of the Suit team. The content is still the old one-Android system-specific infringement, but the object of the lawsuit has become Samsung and LG.

　　March 2011

This time, Microsoft launched a more cool and heartless attack, targeting Barnes & Noble. In fact, this is just an operating system that selects android as its nook e-reader.

　　June 2011

The two less-involved hardware companies first tasted the darkness of society, and velocity micro and general dynamics were forced to compromise Microsoft's lewd, And they signed an authorization license agreement. This contract is very similar to the previous agreement between Microsoft and HTC.

　　July 2011

The bid loss at the bid auction made Google suffer again, and it was no surprise that we saw Microsoft and Apple among other contestants. Google's bid is a failure. $9 million of the area they took out was thrown out of the venue by the "evil" consortium for a price of $4.5 billion million. In short, beidian sold more than six thousand patents, covering 4G wireless technology, data networks, voice communication and many other aspects.

The bad luck of Google is not over yet. HTC was once again overwhelmed by Apple in its preliminary ruling by the International Trade Commission. If the International Trade Commission still upheld its decision later this year, all HTC Android phones may be banned from being sold locally in the United States.

This month, Google finally ushered in a breeze: The company acquired more than one thousand patents from IBM, thus helping the overall patent portfolio be more reasonable and practical. However, this still does not ease the litigation pressure on Android manufacturers, because this purchase mainly involves patents on the memory and microprocessing chip architecture, and there is little content about the mobile operating system.

　　August 2011

Google is desperate to defend the android vendor camp. With $12.5 billion, it has bought about 24500 patents from Motorola mobile and its extensive portfolio. Google CEO Larry Page pointed out that the patent raid will greatly benefit its Android partners because Google will continue to provide support for the android open mobile operating system.

"This purchase will not change our commitment to positioning android as an open platform," page stressed. "Although Motorola becomes the android holder, this will not change the open nature of the Android system. We will operate the Motorola business separately. The success of Android is thanks to the assistance of so many excellent hardware partners, and we are looking forward to working with them to provide users with a better user experience ."

However, this still does not impede global patent litigation against Android manufacturers. Samsung was not long ago asked to stop selling its Android-based Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia until the company reached an agreement with apple to lift the ban. A Dutch court also recently issued an announcement asking Samsung to immediately withdraw the Android-based Galaxy smartphone marketing campaign that has patent disputes.

　　September 2011

Samsung vowed to retaliate against Apple over the holiday, saying it would stop iPhone 5 sales in South Korea. According to the South Korean times, Samsung intends to sue Apple for alleged patent infringement in wireless technology. There are indications that by the end of this year, Android will still suffer from the lingering nightmare of patent litigation.