{"id":649050,"date":"2013-03-27T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=399833"},"modified":"2013-03-27T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:42:34","slug":"get-ready-for-more-lawsuits-a-quarter-of-all-new-patents-will-be-mobile-related-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649050","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for more lawsuits: A quarter of all new patents will be mobile-related this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/new-mobile-patents-surge-399833\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/gavel-courtroom110429151451.jpg?w=650&amp;h=380&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"New Mobile Patents\" title=\"Gavel\" \/><\/a><\/center>While more patent suits may be the last thing the mobile industry needs, it seems that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to get no matter what.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130327\/a-quarter-of-patents-this-year-will-be-mobile-related\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new study from analyst\u00a0Chetan Sharma projecting that one-fourth of all patents issued in the United States this year will be mobile-related, up from just 5% in 2001.\u00a0Sharma also finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>) was the leader in mobile patents granted last year, which makes sense because the company has been working to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/06\/08\/samsung-apple-lte-patent-suit-analysis\/\">boost its mobile patent portfolio<\/a> to ward off more potential lawsuits from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/24\/apple-samsung-trial-verdict-samsung-loses-big\/\">high-stakes patent suit that the company lost last summer<\/a>. Sharma says that the surge in mobile patents is unsurprising since smartphones and tablets have quickly become &#8220;the growth engine of the knowledge economy,&#8221; which gives companies a lot more incentive to patent everything they can to both maximize their returns on R&amp;D and to prevent potential suits from patent trolls.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/FKZ6GrzE7_s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While more patent suits may be the last thing the mobile industry needs, it seems that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to get no matter what.\u00a0AllThingsD points us to a new study from analyst\u00a0Chetan Sharma projecting that one-fourth of all patents issued in the United States this year will be mobile-related, up from just 5% in 2001.\u00a0Sharma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}