It appears Google failure to secure the patents from Canadian company – Nortel over two years ago have come back to haunt them on Halloween 2013.
According to a new report from Fosspatent, Rockstar – the name of a consortium of six big industry players (Apple, Blackberry, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony), has recently filed lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas against Google, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, LG, HTC, Pantech, and ASSUTeK.
The Rockstar consortium is alleging that the accused companies have infringed their patents.
The patents involved according to Foss Patent include:
Patents-in-suit against Google
- U.S. Patent No. 6,098,065 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,236,969 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,469,245 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,672,970 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,895,178 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,895,183 on an “associative search engine”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,933,883 on an “associative search engine”
Patents-in-suit against Google’s hardware partners (Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, LG, HTC, Pantech, ASUSTeK)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,838,551 on an “electronic package carrying an electronic component and assembly of mother board and electronic package”
- U.S.Patent No. 6,037,937 on a “navigation tool for graphical user interface”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,128,298 on an “Internet protocol filter”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,333,973 on an “integrated message center”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,463,131 on a “system and method for notifying a user of an incoming communication event”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,765,591 on “managing a virtual private network”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,937,572 on “call trace on a packet switched network”