The U.S. justice department in the next week the earliest approved Google (the Po) $12.5 billion acquisition of MOTOROLA (the Po) mobile deals. When Google will have strong a patent technology of library weapons, to deal with and Microsoft (the Po) and apple patent wars between smartphone cellphone.
Not only is the United States, the European Union commission will also most late next week a deciding whether to approve the deal. And antitrust investigation department is most concerned about Google can be fair to MOTOROLA rivals MOTOROLA mobile core patent license.
And of course a patent case wait for the U.S. justice department deal approved, apple, Microsoft, the consortium $4.5 billion acquisition of a bankrupt nortel networks of thousands of patents. The deal also may cause benefit to Google Android camp of enterprise of unfair competition.
"Google get MOTOROLA patent should be substantially reduce after Android camp by enterprise patent litigation." Telecom enterprise analysts WangYuQuan (the Po) told the first financial daily (the Po) "reporter, Google will be fair to the patent license.
"For Android camp for the enterprise internal also need not worry, because Google won't special treatment to MOTOROLA, after his hard construction provides mobile destroyed." Analysts HongBo told the reporter, "according to international practice, the U.S. justice department may in the Android operating system and the cell phone maker MOTOROLA draw a firewall between, Google can't give special request the treatment."
If Google would like to purchase to MOTOROLA's mobile tens of thousands of patent to Android camp fair and reasonable use of, Google faction smartphone enterprise will breathe a sigh of relief. Because in the smart cellphone market, money is apple make go. Market research company Asymco data showed that, in the fourth quarter of last year $15 billion profit in the global handset market, apple is occupied 75%, but the season in global mobile phone market share for only about 9%. Samsung (the Po) profits account for 16% of the mobile phone industry, followed is RIM, HTC (the Po), nokia (the Po).
Besides making money is not easy, in Google acquisition MOTOROLA mobile before, Android camp of samsung and HTC apple and Microsoft were also intensive "exploiting", and basically every sell a cell phone, the two companies will pay 5 to 15 dollars patent costs, and in part by area still can halt sales of punishment.
But Android camp is organized counterattack. Late last year, the German local court said, apple infringed MOTOROLA two patents. MOTOROLA recently has asked for apple in each of the last year sold a iPhone and iPad, paid to the 2.25% of the selling price is equivalent to the patent fees. This may be a up to billions of dollars in costs.
For the trading and frequent patent patent litigation, analysts LiuXingLiang (the Po) think, like nuclear threat, the overseas enterprise focus of the accumulation of patent technology, all have a patent, would not have threatened a lawsuit each other, is now actively smartphone market into the Chinese mobile phone of enterprise need careful layout, choose a camp, "don't repeat the mistakes before the patent, profits are DVD made patent fees, has destroyed the industry."
"Since we last August with MOTOROLA mobile reached an agreement for the acquisition, there have been questioned whether we can continue to voice in a fair, reasonable, under the principle of not discrimination, MOTOROLA mobile patent license." Google spokesman nicky · fenway g answer when the questions also hope to appease media Android camp and the concerns of the enterprise the justice department, "the answer is simple: Google will do so."
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