By Emily Poole
A group of tech giants—Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Ericcson and Sony—have teamed up to file suit against Google over alleged smart phone patent infringements. The group, operating as Rockstar Consortium, spend $4.5 billion buying thousands of patents from the now bankrupt Nortel to use in the suit against Google. The complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, alleges that Google has infringed seven of such patents.
Read more at: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/
