Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Post #26: Eight more for Samsung -- Will Ericsson ever stop?


In one of my most recent blog posts, I discussed how Samsung asked for a two month extension for this current case because Ericsson has asserted over 130 patents against Samsung and they want more time to prepare to defend themselves.  With Ericsson throwing in eight more patents, who knows when this trial will actually happen.  It is literally a battle of the patents and if these companies keep going at it, the court case may not happen until even later.


Right now, the court case is scheduled June 2014 and who knows how much father back it is going to be delayed with 8 more patents.  The patents in question are:

  1. U.S. Patent No. 6,029,125 on "Reducing Sparseness In Coded Speech Signals"
  2. U.S. Patent No. 6,031,832 on a "Method And Apparatus for Improving Performance Of A Packet Communications System"
  3. U.S. Patent No. 6,070,078 on "Reduced Global Positioning System Receiver Code Shift Search Space For A Cellular Telephone System"
  4. U.S. Patent No. 6,418,130 on "Reuse of Security Associations For Improving Hand-Over Performance"
  5. U.S. Patent No. 7,149,510 on a "Security Access Manager In Middleware"
  6. U.S. Patent No. 7,286,823 on a "Mobile Multimedia Engine"
  7. U.S. Patent No. 8,023,990 on "Uplink Scheduling In A Cellular System"
  8. U.S. Patent No. 8,214,710 on "Methods and apparatus for processing error control messages in a wireless communication system"

It appears the message Ericsson is trying to send is that it is ready to fight with Samsung.  It wouldn't keep asserting these patents if it did not think it was going to lose.  As I said in one of my previous posts, we will just have to wait until June 2014 for the case to actually begin.  I'll be following this case closely though, so look out for updates.

5 comments:

  1. It seems like Ericsson is going overboard with the amount of patents they are suing for. I agree that Ericsson is confident about this case, but a little too confident. It could be that the lawyers like the judge or this specific court. Still, with so many patents it seem like whatever the outcome will be it will take a really long time to implement.

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  2. Very interesting article Adam. I wrote about the same issue and how Ericsson is going overboard with those amount of patents. It's intriguing and rather annoying to see how this case is going to be delayed again for those 8 patents. We should closely look at this case and hopefully it will not be delayed once again.

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  3. Thanks for sharing this article, interesting stuff. Its actually pretty standard to attack with 8 patents, this usually gets dwindled down to a couple patents or so. Will be interesting to see where this goes.

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  4. That seems like a lot of patents, but perhaps it's the norm. They must have all planned for them at the same time because it takes a while to even get one.

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  5. Surprised Ericsson even has any valuable patents in the space; i thought they stopped innovating a long time ago.

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