Apple would some of the patents issued to the company Digitude, which only has the aim of with a patentportfolio to knock on the door at other companies for money. Digitude complained a lot mobieltjesfabrikanten, but not Apple.
Techcrunch saw that Apple in the last time several patents have been transferred to a company called Cliff Island LLC. This company has no phone number or website and the physical address was also no trace of the company. On the same floor as the specified address in New York was the investor Altitude Capital, which for the major capital injection of $ 50 million for Digitude made in the design of this patentenbedrijf in 2010.
Digitude collects patents and get this to other companies to them, by threat of lawsuits, to move all licenses to the technology described. The patentenverzamelaar claimed last week compared to the International Trade Commission that the mobile phones and tabletfabrikanten RIM, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Amazon and Nokia infringed on his patents made. The lawyers justified their claim with a number of patents to wave-including two that Apple to Cliff Island had provided.
On his server had Digitude also a file called ‘Digitude-Apple License Agreement’, the content of which is not, however, could be looked at. TechCrunch see further instructions in the notice of Digitude in april of this year that the company has “a strategic partnership with one of the world’s leading companies in the field of consumer electronics has entered into’.
If the claims of Techcrunch knocking, the question is why Apple Digitude helps with its aim of patents to leverage. Apple is global, even in all kinds of patentzaken involved and seems to be external companies are not required to have. Especially not since the so-called ‘patenttrollen” for the last few years, a very bad name. Techcrunch also sees the possibility that Apple was forced the patents to be handed over as part of a settlement, but also this would be an unlikely scenario. Both Apple and Digitude didn’t want a clarification about the claims.