Rockstar Consortium US LP et al v. Google Inc

Filing 19

Additional Attachments to Main Document: 18 MOTION to Change Venue .. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 25, # 2 Exhibit 26, # 3 Exhibit 27, # 4 Exhibit 28, # 5 Exhibit 29, # 6 Exhibit 30, # 7 Exhibit 31, # 8 Exhibit 32, # 9 Exhibit 33, # 10 Exhibit 34, # 11 Exhibit 35, # 12 Exhibit 36, # 13 Exhibit 37, # 14 Exhibit 38, # 15 Exhibit 39, # 16 Exhibit 40, # 17 Exhibit 41, # 18 Exhibit 42, # 19 Exhibit 43, # 20 Exhibit 44)(Mann, James)

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As It Gears Up For War With Samsung, Apple Adds To Its Patent
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Apple is stocking up on
patents.

CEO Tim Co o k is s till p urc has ing warhe ad s in Ap p le ' s " the rmo nuc le ar" b attle ag ains t And ro id .

T he company has quietly snapped up more than a thousand patents in the past six months f rom Rockstar
Consortium, a move that helps bolster it as it battles Google, Samsung, and other Android backers in the
mobile-device market.
Apple's action came to light af ter a Korean regulator reported the transf er of 1,024 patents or patent
applications f rom Rockstar to Apple, according to Yonhap News.
A search of the US Patent and Trademark Of f ice database conf irms that Rockstar has transf erred more than
1,350 patents. In a random sampling, almost all of those appear to have been sent to Apple.
Apple already had access to these patents, since it owns a large stake in Rockstar Consortium. T hat venture,
f ormerly known as Rockstar Bidco, bid $4.5 billion, of which Apple provided $2.6 billion, on a collection of 4,000
patents sold by Nortel. Microsof t, Sony, Ericsson, and RIM also backed Rockstar, which beat out Google in the
bidding f or the patent collection.
But getting f ull rights to the patent likely helps Apple use the patents of f ensively in its ongoing lawsuits. If you
do not own a patent, but merely have licensed it, you can't go out and sue someone f or using the patent.
Having outright ownership of a patent allows Apple to use the patents of f ensively.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling did not respond to an emailed request f or comment. Microsof t, a minority
partner in Rockstar, declined to comment.

Mike Dunleavy, Rockstar's general counsel, declined to comment on the Korean news report, but said that
contrary to widespread reports that Apple had a majority stake in the company, "No one shareholder owns a
controlling interest in Rockstar Consortium."