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You’ve probably heard that major smartphone makers are suing each other in an effort to stop certain products reaching the market. HTC and Samsung are sued by Apple, which in turn is sued by Samsung. But that’s not all, with these smartphone wars going beyond the wildest imagination, even involving some smaller companies most of us never heard of before.
For instance, “Graphics Properties Holdings” has patents from the now-defunct Silicon Graphics; Gemalto is the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards; InterDigital is a 40-year-old company that helped invent many basic mobile phone technologies; and VirnetX is a security company wrangling with Cupertino giant over VPN access technologies.
You can see how all this comes together from the two charts below with the second one showing who holds how many patents. From that image alone, you can easily tell why Google acquired Motorola – for its massive library of 17,500 patents… Anyway, here are the charts.
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About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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