Intellectual Ventures has filed a patent infringement suit against Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition, Motorola Mobility, over Motorola’s Android-based phones. The suit creates a potentially embarrassing scenario for Google, which has invested in IV.
Intellectual Ventures has filed a wide-ranging lawsuit accusing about a dozen companies, including Hynix Semiconductor, Dell and Wal-Mart Stores, of infringing patents used in semiconductor dynamic random access memory.
Intellectual Ventures, founded in 2000 by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed three suits in a Delaware federal court, seeking unspecified damages and requesting a jury trial.
Online auction giant eBay was hit Tuesday with a $3.8 billion patent infringement lawsuit. XPRT Ventures, which holds patents covering e-commerce payments and methods, filed suit in Delaware federal court against eBay and subsidiaries, including PayPal and StubHub.