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Unified Patents is a PAE counter-measure — one might even call it a patent attack dog: It challenges bad patents to get them out of circulation.
Samsung has secured another front against patent attack by shelling out to renew an IP-licensing deal with Ericsson — settling pending litigation attached to the long-running dispute.
Meanwhile, Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said in an email to Bloomberg that Motorola is "vigorously defending [itself] against Microsoft's patent attack business strategy".
After all, if Twitter decided one day it needed to launch a patent attack on an uprising competitor, then it would do so if that's what it had to do.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is "confident that the ITC will rule in [its] favor". Meanwhile, Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said in an email to Bloomberg that Motorola is "vigorously defending [itself] against Microsoft's patent attack business strategy". And a business strategy is exactly what it is.
Pro Softnet Corporation, the company behind online backup and cloud storage services such as iDrive and iBackup (we've covered their solutions a few times in the past) apparently finds itself facing its "largest patent attack" brought on by a non-practicing entity (or 'NPE', aka a patent troll).
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Former Apple employees say senior executives made a deliberate decision over the last decade, after Apple was a victim of patent attacks, to use patents as leverage against competitors to the iPhone, the company's biggest source of profits.
However, the patent attacks, and Google's responses, are not directly relevant to the topic of this article: how Android products approach an ethically system of distribution and how they fall short.
Patent attacks from them aren't something I worry about.
As patent attacks become more common place, companies are stocking up on ammunition.
Google has accused Microsoft of staging unjustified "anti-competitive patent attacks" against its mobile operating system and said its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2012 would help it "protect" the Android ecosystem thanks to it gaining extra patents of its own.
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