The hugely competitive mobile market under the litigation hammer
A market’s consolidation and the launch of new products almost always give way to lawsuit fights and complaints. Google’s android phone partners HTC Corporation has been charged by Apple last week for trying to replicate the iphone. Its hard to figure out the motive behind the lawsuit- maybe its just a warning bell to all the other near and far competitors.
Google has made it pretty clear that it would be backing HTC in this fight against Apple for the simple reason that HTC is the major technology partner in Google’s attempt to create the andriod smartphones. It seems there is a growing fear among companies today of being outwitted out of the market.Experts say -
“I’m seeing more, larger patent cases in the last couple years,” by Paul Andre, a partner with law firm King & Spaulding. “It does appear that companies that were more hesitant to file lawsuits in the past are filing today.”.
The last few years have seen some major patent fights like Nokia v.s Apple in October last year and Intel v/s AMD previously etc.The fact of the matter is that smartphones have led to quite a few patent fights between major technology players in the area. Its quite obvious and simple Micro Economics that
There’s a ton of money flowing into the mobile space; it’s the new platform and companies could go to any extent to own the platform.