List of lawsuits
- (For analyses of court rulings that define patent law, see Key court rulings.)
Every patent is a legal excuse to go to court, costing time, money, and legal resources. For the problems causes by software patents, they represent only a very small portion. More serious problems include the way they block compatibility, block development, create patent taxes, and the legal and licensing costs they generate through threats which don't go to court.
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Litigation and threats
The following are articles law suits filed, court cases, and some threats made public. The large majority of software patent litigation takes place in the USA. To avoid repetition, only the exceptions to that rule will carry a note of which country they took place in. For a more descriptive look at the rulings in the USA, see case law in the USA. (See also: Category:Court cases and litigation)
Picking a year to associate with case is usually difficult since they drag on for years and there can be appeals, changes of venue, and new defendants added. The year mentioned in the names of court case articles on ESP Wiki generally refer to the year when the judge ruled on the case.
2010
- Acacia v. Red Hat and Novell (2010, USA)
- Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
- TecSec v. loads of software companys regarding an encryption patent
- Nokia v. Apple (2010, USA)
2009
- Uniloc vs Microsoft, 2009
- I4i v. Microsoft
- Software Tree vs Red Hat, 2009
- Fotomedia Technologies vs the World 2009
2008
- Microsoft v. TomTom (2008, USA)
- Trend Micro v. Barracuda (2008, USA)
- in re Bilski (2008, USA)
- Symbian v. Comptroller General (2008, UK)
- Quanta v. LGE (2008, USA)
2006
2005
1999
1993
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Category:Court cases and litigation
- Reading case law
- Forum shopping
- United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) - proposed system for Europe
- News links - per-year news stories, many of which are about litigation
- Countries with case law:
