Qualcomm has announced 1400 American and thousand foreign patents on webOS, iPaq, and Bitfone to have obtained from HP. HP will retain a license on the patents. It is unclear how much Qualcomm for the acquisition has been paid.
To how many patents exactly is unclear. There are 1,400 U.s. patents, sold, and thousands of foreign patents, but instead to overlap there is an unknown number. The patents go partly on ancient concepts of the webOS platform, a platform that is now in the hands of LG. When LG webOS last year, bought it, loved HP, additionally, patents in the hands, now, therefore, be owned by Qualcomm. What impact this acquisition has for LG, is unclear. LG uses webOS for tv’s, while originally built for smartphones.
Other patents in this sale be transferred are older and relate to the iPaq devices from HP, the pocket pcs around ten years ago that ran on Windows Mobile and was originally developed by Compaq. Also turned this pdas software, Bitfone, software for managing the device, which now also patents are transferred to Qualcomm.
Qualcomm makes no phones, tablets or pdas, but especially mobile processors. With the acquisition of these patents, the company can say ‘even more added value to offer to his customers. Moreover, with this purchase an extra can provide protection against patentgerelateerde court proceedings, for example, any tegenproces.