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===Diagrams of all the litigation===
 
===Diagrams of all the litigation===

Revision as of 20:43, 29 December 2011

In 2010, there was an explosion of litigation between companies developing third-generation mobile phones.

As well as filing litigation in the courts, many cases were filed with the United States International Trade Commission to block imports and exports. No such blocks have yet been put in place (as of August 2010).

As well as filing a lawsuit, many patent holders also file a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission to ban the import of the product in question.

Why so much litigation?

Some factors are obvious: high-tech phones are a new, growing market.

Another factor might be that this new market mixes together software and hardware companies that haven't dealt with each other directly before. For this reason, the companies involved don't have existing patent non-aggression pacts with each other.

Lawsuits filed

Oldest first:

Related pages on ESP Wiki

External links

Diagrams of all the litigation

References