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Splitting the Arrow Through the Axe Head: Is Android Google’s Trojan Horse, Oracle’s Siren Song or will this Odyssey have a new ending

Why? That’s the question we’ve been asking ourselves. Maybe its obvious to most of the capital markets and pundits alike, but… standing upon the proverbial rock from which we survey the “weather” on the financial horizon… we have to wonder why Oracle would sue Google for distributing a free product that is based, in part, on another free product? Why would Oracle put the lifespan of Android (and likely the Java ecosystem as a whole) at risk of near-term death?

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Wireless Ink Corporation’s U.S. Patent No. 7,599,983

On March 9, 2011 Wireless Ink Corporation (hereafter referred to as Wireless Ink) won a first round court ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, Inc. and Google, Inc. Wireless Ink which owns Winksite, a website and mobile social networking service, has over 75,000 registered users. A mere fraction when compared to the millions of mobile users of Facebook and the traffic generated by Google’s introduction of Buzz.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Imperium (IP) Holdings, Inc. v. Apple Inc. et. al.

On March 18, 2011, Imperium (IP) Holdings filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas accusing seven companies of infringing five of its patents. Imperium claims that LG, Kyocera, Nokia, Motorola Mobility, Apple, Sony and RIM have all committed infringement by manufacturing, selling or importing cell phones. The asserted patents all relate to image sensors and, in particular, photodiodes. Each of the five patents came to ESS Technology, Inc. as part of its 2003 acquisition of Pictos Technologies, Inc. from Conexant Systems, Inc.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of DownUnder Wireless LLC’s Inverted Safety Antenna Patent referenced in DownUnder Wireless, LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. et al.

The November 20, 2009 lawsuit with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Walmart Stores Inc., and others, was the most recent in a string of litigation DownUnder Wireless, LLC had filed against cell phone manufacturers, providers and retailers. On May 27, 2010, nearly 20 of the defendants filed a joint motion to dismiss the suit after agreeing to cooperate with DownUnder Wireless, presumably paying a licensing fee in the process.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Microsoft Corporation v. Motorola Inc.

Microsoft, a 10 year veteran of mobile operating systems has stumbled in the space due to the failure of its Kin phone, forcing a reorganization of its consumer product unit. In a bid to regain lost ground in the mobile phone arena, Microsoft has put its vast resources behind the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. On October 1, 2010, on the eve the of Windows Phone 7 release, Microsoft sued Motorola, claiming that Motorola's mobile phones infringed on nine of its patents.

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