Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile

Although the graphic itself won't win an award for design, Norman submitted a story about who's suing who in the mobile universe. From Apple to Qualcomm and pretty much everyone in between, it's a pretty impressive mess.

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[duranaki]

Also I'd like to see some dotted lines to connect companies with cross-patent licensing agreements. For instance I know Kodak and Nokia have them, which is why Kodak is suing Apple and not Nokia.

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[JMZero]

If you're wondering, there is a planar embedding for this graph (ie they could have avoided all crossing). GO MS PAINT! [jumpmanzero.com]

But yeah, not sure whether they're dumb, or just wanted it to look more imposing.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty cool.

Now if someone else wanted to do exactly what this guy did, but vary the circle's diameter by how much each company has to fight their lawsuits, it would be even cooler.

Actually, Microsoft is almost offering to be sued

[Motard]

By indemnifying WP7 manufacturers against patent infringement suits, MS is basically assuming any legal threats itself - on behalf of its manufacturers.