A Company Jointly Owned by Apple, Microsoft, And Blackberry Is Suing Google, Samsung And Others

This won't shock anyone that follows the smartphone industry: Rockstar, the consortium that bought Nortel's portfolio of patents for $4.5 billion, is suing Google, Samsung Electronics, HTC, Huawei and others for patent infringement, Dan Levine.>$4

Rockstar is a company owned by $4, $4, Blackberry, Ericsson and Sony. Google actually tried to the patents itself, $4 then raising the price to as much as $4.4 billion. But it $4

The loss spurred Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, $4.

These vendors would love it if judges would declare their competitors products in violation of patents and $4. If not that, they hope they can make their competitors $4.

It's all a legal game to make the other company's smartphone cost more.