Apple has applied to the American consumer electronics technology authorized the company Digitude Innovations LLC hand over some of the patent technology, and Digitude has set up a file in the local time Tuesday to the international trade commission (ITC) filed a lawsuit, HTC, HTC lawsuit us subsidiary, RIM, samsung, LG, MOTOROLA, nokia and SONY and amazon, the company infringe upon its portable communication equipment patent technology, but apple, but not in the list of the defendant. Obviously, Digitude are apple launched the global patent war plays "patent thugs" (patent troll) role.
The famous American technology blog TechCrunch investigation shows, in the lawsuit Digitude have two patent technology in earlier this year had to belong to apple. TechCrunch reports revealed in, this was disclosed documents confirmed that apple and Digitude reached a patent license between agreement, but the agreement on the specific terms is unknown.
Apple earlier this year to a shell company was Cliff Island LLC transferred more than ten patents. Despite the outside world to Cliff Island company information mastery of the very rare, but TechCrunch freelance writers Jason JinKaiDe (Jason Kincaid) very sure of that and Cliff Island company address and Digitude investors Altitude Capital the same address. Then, Cliff Island will this part of the patent technology authorized to Digitude.
Forbes magazine in June this year a report also noted that Altitude Capital founder Robert Kramer (Robert Kramer) involvement in creating the Digitude. Altitude after this continuing to Digitude additional $50 million investment, the purpose is to hope to buy its consumer electronic products patent technology, and to large science and technology enterprise launched by patent litigation.
Kramer after reveal to the outside: "I have a lot of potential customers with the communication, and encourage them to a patent license with the company early alliance, we plan to launch in the fourth quarter of the year formal authorization scheme. Digitude is currently implementing a new investment strategy, this strategy allows investors in the form of patent technology to the company for investment, this that is to join the scheme of any company can all share a patent license.
Because at present the main business is to buy Digitude patent and other companies to a lawsuit, so the company was outside the words "patent thugs" of notoriety, but still insists he kramer is a legitimate investors.
It is not clear whether apple Digitude and a formal and deeper cooperation agreement, but JinKaiDe has provided us relationship between the two companies several reasonable speculation. JinKaiDe said apple is likely to be Digitude as its global patent war "gunmen".
JinKaiDe also points out, another possibility is that apple has a deal with Digitude patent, for through this method, apple can avoid and rival happened directly to fight.
"In addition to patent thugs on the key technology transfer, apple is not no other choice. Apple chose the former because they can be sure Digitude will use obtained by the patent to other large science and technology enterprise an infringement action" JinKaiDe report if wrote.
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