Thursday, January 23, 2014

Google fined $ 125 million for violating a patent for Android - Expansión.com

Google will face a fine worth $ 125 million (about 92 million) for damages caused to the company for infringing a patent SimpleAir Android.

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The case is still under trial, but the judge at first instance district of Texas has given valid demand SimpleAir claiming five aspects matching Android notifications with his patent.

This patent is related, in particular, with the push notification system that works with Android in the Google Cloud Messaging services and Android Cloud to Device Messaging. These services are used by Google to process and send instant messages Android applications like Facebook, Twitter or Gmail.

According to Business Wire, this legal dispute will be resolved in a second round of trials, as in the first case the jury did not reach a unanimous decision of the amount that was due to penalize Google.

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