Google Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that are hurting consumers and leave the company to "sort out the mess" litigation. "It's hard to find what the best way – there is so much litigation," Walker said in an interview July 25. "We are exploring a variety of different things. " Google, the Android operating system has been targeted at least six complaints of law, is looking to buy intellectual property that can be used as a defense against litigation.
Google, the world's largest internet search company, also sought to curb abuse of the system, called the Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to control the lawsuit, and asked the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for a closer look at the patents used in litigation, said Walker. "Industrial technologies have significant problems," he said. "Software patents are a type of Cumming on the jobGoogle's competitors have said the Mountain View, Calif.
-based company is very important from the patent system because it has its own patent number and enter the smartphone market in which the company has been researching and selling products for many years before Android phone went on sale in 2008. Google has assigned 728 patents through yesterday, according to the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office database, mostly for search engine technology. Apple has more than 4,000 U.
S. patents, and Microsoft Corp. more than 18,000, according to the Android system is a free, open-source program that relies on some features Nonproprietary Google does not create and allow outside developers to change the code. That has left the company vulnerable to claims that it was built Android on the back of research conducted by other technology companies. Google, which has 39100000000 $ in cash and short-term investments in June, including the initial offer of 900 million U.
S. dollars in April to buy patents from bankrupt phone-eq. .