google-logo-2011-10-25Rockstar is a tech consortium that is comprised of companies such as Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Sony. The consortium was originally formed to purchase Nortel’s patents when they declared their bankruptcy, but in 2013, the consortium also decided to use the patents they bought to go after the likes of Google for alleged patent infringement.

Google, safe to say, wasn’t too happy about it and while we would have expected some long and drawn out legal battle, it looks like it could be already at an end. According to a recent filing submitted to the US District Court of the Eastern District of Texas, it seems that Google and the Rockstar Consortium have agreed to settle their dispute whose details have unsurprisingly not be made known to the public.

While Google is not the only company that the Rockstar Consortium are going after, it has been suggested that could be the key to resolving this as it involve patents pertaining to Android, and that the other companies Rockstar has gone after are Android OEMs (oddly enough Sony seems to be exempt to this).

What this means is that if Rockstar and Google can clear this up, it should effectively clear up any legal cases they’re having with the likes of HTC, LG, and ASUS, the other companies Rockstar had gone after. Either way patent battles can get pretty ugly and we’re glad that this could be coming to an end.

Filed in General. Read more about and .

Discover more from Ubergizmo

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading