Patent Wars

The Patent Wars
The Convoluted Battlefield of Tech IP

THE BATTLEZONE
Who has sued whom

TREATY TERRITORY
Who's selling patents to whom

2008 2012

10
Number of patents Involved
An eye for an eye; suing a company that's already suing them
Sending out
On the receiving end

AOL
ZTE
Apple
Yahoo
Barnes & Noble
Samsung
EMC
RIM
Ericsson
Oracle
Foxconn
Nokia
Facebook
Nortel
Google
Motorola Mobility
HTC
Motorola
Huawei
Microsoft
IBM
LG
Kodak
Intervec
Interdigital

9
8
4
10
13
7
10
20
5
9
925
5
2
5
5
1
7
6
2
5
6000
7
16
23
5
7
9
2094
1000 Patents have not been sold
17000
650 Patent WARS THE BATTLEZONE Who has sued whom TREATY TERRITORY Who's selling patents to whom 2008 2012 10 THE CONVOLUTED BATTLEFIELD OF TECH IP. Number of patents involved An eye for an eye: suing a company that's already suing them On the receiving end Sending out AOL ZTE Apple Yahoo Barnes & Noble Samsung EMC RIM Ericsson Oracle Foxconn 925 Nokia Facebook Nortel Google 6,000 Motorola Mobility O HTC 23 16 Motorola Huawei 2,094 Microsoft IBM LG Interdigital Kodak Intervec 650 17,000 1,000 Patents have not been sold Sources: SEC filings via LexisNexis and EDGAR; BBC, Bloomberg, CNET, CNN Money. Forbes, InfoWorld, MarketWatch, Microsoft, MSNBC. New York Times, PC World, Reuters, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal visual.ly