Deal suggests #Apple has decided to end a bitter legal war against #Google and #Android phone makers, according to reports and new court filings. A final settlement, slated for December 29, would come more than a year after Google’s rivals used Rockstar to launch patent lawsuits against at least seven companies — including #HTC, #Huawei and #Samsung — that make Android-based devices.The Rockstar lawsuits threatened to further inflame a global patent battle over smartphones, and led Google to file a lawsuit of its own last Christmas in an attempt to shield phone makers. Under CEO #TimCook, Apple has become more pragmatic, signing a limited truce with Google this spring and appears to be intent on winding down Rockstar altogether — a dramatic turnabout from 2011, when Apple banded together with four other firms (#Microsoft, #Blackberry, #Ericsson and #Sony) to pay $4.5 billion for old Nortel patents and to create Rockstar as a NPE to attack Google. goo.gl/6XJCHR
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:59:48 +0000
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