Rockstar Patent Holders Sue Google & Friends

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The Rockstar consortium, made up of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), BlackBerry (formerly RIM), Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC), and Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), acquired 4,000 patents from Nortel in 2011, spanning all ranges of 4G wireless technology, for $4.5 billion. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) also attempted to the buy the valuable patents, but ultimately was outbid. (See DoJ OK’s $4.5B Nortel Patent Sale and Apple, Google Seek Patent Shields.)

So far, the consortium has yet to make use of what could be a powerful weapon. But today the group filed suit
against Google and seven of its handset partners, claiming its Android
operating system violates seven of its patents, all related to its
“Associative Search Engine” patent that produces search-related
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