Thursday, July 12, 2012

Apple Records The Biggest Number Of Mobile Patent Lawsuit In The World [ Infographic ]

Well, nowadays there are a lot of patent lawsuit are distributed and divided on major companies as Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Elan, Kodak and HTC. Apple was the largest share of patent between these companies and most of these patent are directed towards Apple. We will show you an InfoGraphic entitled " Who is suing Whom ? " after the jump.


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According to an intellectual-property consulting firm called Kanzatec IP Group, Apple is directly or indirectly involved in at least 60 percent of all the mobile lawsuits that took place in the last two years. Feisal Mosleh, a senior vice president at Kanzatec said:

“I would speculate that Apple will continue to be at the center of the litigation map of large mobile IT companies for as long as it maintains its dominant place in the market,”

The company has gained a lot in the last 2-3 years and is also the biggest company in the world, in terms of market share. Hence, it is a direct target for any small or competitive company. The Samsung vs Apple patent wars are still at large, so is the Apple vs HTC war. Recently, Apple was sued by a company in the U.S, who claimed that Apple had stolen their noise reduction technology. Apple recently paid about $60 million as settlement to Proview, a Chinese company who stated that the iPad trademark belonged to them.

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