Crazy Love ignition 4G patent melee will detonate
2012-09-13 01:26 Commercial Times [Reporter Lin Jia Yi / Dow Jones reported]
Apple love crazy 5 (iPhone 5), unveiled Wednesday, is expected to fully ignite 4G smartphone patent war. According to official statistics, the Samsung Electronics holds the world's largest 4G LTE patents, more than 2.5 times that of Apple's, but InterDigital and Qualcomm (Qualcomm) followed closely. How the technology industry the 4G patent GeZongLianHeng will be the next wave of the battle of First Instance winning key.
4G LTE has been recognized as the next generation of high-speed wireless networking standard, in May this year, the advent of the latest generation of Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone support 4G LTE high-speed network, the Apple iPhone 5 is also expected to upgrade to 4G version. The previous South Korean media reports, Apple launched 4G LTE technology, iPhone 5, Samsung would immediately sue.
With the next few years, more smart phones or tablet computers and other mobile devices to upgrade to 4G, the public patent gunfire bound along the steering. In other words, more 4G LTE-related patents, the future will have the stronger defense in patent litigation battle. Apple are competing for the leading smartphone throne with Samsung is concerned, it is the outcome of the key points.
According to the South Korean Intellectual Property Office of Statistics, Samsung now holds the world's largest number of LTE patents, more than 819 by the end of June this year, 21% more than the same period last year. Ranking 2,3 InterDigital and Qualcomm (Qualcomm), with 780 and 687 respectively.
In contrast, Apple from 2011 have not any LTE patents increased to 318 from last year, Nortel (Nortel) the joint patent acquisition. But Apple has another number of LTE patents # 3 of Qualcomm partnership.
In addition, Nokia and Motorola separated into different camps, LTE total number of patents each 389 and 374.
Samsung until the end of last month in the United States was sentenced to infringement of six patents Apple has been fined $ 1.05 billion. However, the Wall Street Journal quoted a familiar Samsung idea who that Samsung not only did not back down, but rather intends to expand the patent defendants war.
The the the Seoul investment institutions Taurus analyst Kim Hyoung-sik frankly, Samsung is very likely to use his strong advantage in LTE technology continues to wrangle with Apple.
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