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Intellectual Property

Apr. 26, 2014

Apple-backed holding company sparks fierce legal battle

The entry of Rockstar US Consortium LP into the smartphone patent wars has reopened the debate over what role patent holding companies have in the courtroom and the marketplace.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


While Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. battle directly a patent infringement case in a San Jose federal trial, with Google Inc. as a major player, the next chapter of the "smartphone wars" may hinge on the treatment of a holding company. On the surface, Rockstar US Consortium LP is a standard holding company, a non-practicing entity that makes no products of its own but has acquired patents it...

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