List of lawsuits

(For analyses of court rulings that define patent law, see Court rulings creating precedent.)

Every patent is a legal justification to go to court, costing time, money, and legal resources. For the problems causes by software patents, they represent only a very small portion. More serious problems include the way they block compatibility, block development, create patent taxes, and the legal and licensing costs they generate through threats which don't go to court.

Picking a year

Picking a year to associate with case is usually difficult since they drag on for years and there can be appeals, changes of venue, and new defendants added. The year mentioned in the names of lawsuit articles refers to the year when the case first hit the news.

Litigation and threats

The following are articles law suits filed, court cases, and some threats made public. The large majority of software patent litigation takes place in the USA. To avoid repetition, only the exceptions to that rule will carry a note of which country they took place in. For a more descriptive look at the rulings in the USA, see case law in the USA.

See also: Category:Lawsuits and patent aggression

2014

• Intellectual Ventures v. Google (2014, USA)

2013

• Uniloc v. Red Hat and Rackspace (2013, USA)

2012

• CLS Bank v. Alice (2012, USA)
• Nokia v. HTC (2012, Germany)

2011

• Samsung v. Apple 2011 lawsuits worldwide overview
  • Samsung v. Apple (2011, USA)
  • Samsung v. Apple (2011, France)
  • Apple v. Samsung (2011, Netherlands)
• Motorola Mobility v. Apple (2011, Germany)
• S3 Graphics v. Apple (2011, USA)
• Bedrock v. Google (2011, USA)

2010

• FlightPrep v. RunwayFinder and others (2010, USA)
• Gemalto v. phone manufacturers (2010, USA)
• Motorola v. Apple (2010, USA)
• Microsoft v. Motorola (2010, USA)
• Interval Licensing v. 11 big companies (2010, USA)
• Microsoft v. Salesforce (2010, USA)
• Oracle v. Google (2010, USA)
• Acacia v. Red Hat and Novell (2010, USA)
• Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
• TecSec v. loads of software companys regarding an encryption patent
• Nokia v. Apple (2010, USA)‎

2009

• Uniloc vs Microsoft, 2009
• I4i v. Microsoft
• Software Tree vs Red Hat, 2009
• Fotomedia Technologies vs the World 2009

2008

• Mirror Worlds v. Apple (2008, USA)
• Microsoft v. TomTom (2008, USA)
• Trend Micro v. Barracuda (2008, USA)
• in re Bilski (2008, USA)
• Symbian v. Comptroller General (2008, UK)
• Quanta v. LGE (2008, USA)
• Implicit Networks v. many large companies (2010, USA)

2006

• Microsoft v. AT&T
• Aerotel v. Telco, (in the United Kingdom)
• Visto v. Seven

2005

• Justsystem v. Matsushita, (in Japan)

2000

• NTP v. Research in Motion

1999

• State Street v. Signature Financial Group

1993

• Stac v. Microsoft (1993, USA)

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Category:Lawsuits and patent aggression
• Reading case law
• Forum shopping
• United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) - proposed system for Europe
• News links - per-year news stories, many of which are about litigation
• Countries with case law:
  • Case law in Germany
  • Case law in the UK
  • Case law in the USA
• Phone patent litigation