FTC Google may sue for misuse of patents

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There is Google, a new lawsuit over the head now the commissioners of the FTC opinion have received for the search giant to complain. The company would be abuse of patents that are high priority lwa le techniques for smartphones describe.

Various sources in the FTC report that a majority of the committee members intend to follow the recommendation. The patents involved are necessary in order to common techniques such as wi-fi and 3g to be able to implement in a smartphone. Google has these patents is used in the court cases between Apple and Motorola Mobility. In a counterattack, the company that various Apple products infringe on wi-fi and 3g patents held by Motorola Mobility and asked for a ban. Google has for some time been the owner of Motorola.

Because the use of these techniques is so essential and widespread in products of patent holders expected that they hold will not abuse it. By unreasonable demands on a licensee to ask would a patent holder too much power over the market can get. Therefore, should other manufacturers under reasonable conditions, a license on this so-called frand patents. As a result of the introduction of the patents in that lawsuit and the prices that Google uses for the licenses, the FTC inquiry into the policy of the search giant.

The FTC will probably not until after the elections on 6 november to decide on a possible lawsuit. Earlier it was announced that the supervisor, on the basis of other research, may even file a lawsuit against Google is about to begin, the company would be abuse of his position by his own products and services in the search results, as opposed to competing services. That investigation is separate from the present case.