Post #27: Google Loses to Microsoft. Again...

Google is just on a losing streak against Microsoft.  They can't seem to get anything right.  This streak includes Microsoft's patent agreement with China's ZTE becoming public and how they received royalties from an Android patent license; defeating Google's pursuit of an injunction in Germany when Microsoft formed an agreement with Hon Hai; obtaining a FRAND decision related to Google's SEP and lastly, the patents that Google purchased from Motorola for $12.5b not helping Google at all in the current case of Motorola v. Apple.

The patents that Google purchased right now from Motorola are literally giving them no leverage in any cases they have faced so far.  So far, Microsoft has won three cases against Motorola this year, including a U.S. import ban and will most likely win another one later this year.  Microsoft's first German injunctions were ordered by the Munich I Regional Court all the way back in May of 2012.  The case is based on "communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardized interface".  Interestingly enough, the Munich Higher Regional Court rejected Google's appeal, which means that the Motorola Germany ban will stay unless an infringement finding is overturned by the German Federal Court of Justice  but that is unlikely or if the original patent in question is invalidated by the Federal Patent Court -- neither are likely.

Fortunately for Google, even though it can't overturn the injunction, that still doesn't affect it's production.  Companies still want to produce and license Android products.

Maybe Google will be able to stage a comeback in Germany, but as of now, they are really struggling to do so.

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.