The Rockstar Consortium has become a “patent dragnet” that's intent on killing off Google’s Androidrnmobile operating system, Google said Monday in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Apple,rnBlackBerry and Microsoft are among the Google competitors that co-own Rockstar, which some criticsrnclaim is a patent assertion entity. Rockstar has filed multiple lawsuits against Google over the AndroidrnOS, including one in October that alleged Google had violated Rockstar-owned Nortel patents because ofrnGoogle’s purchase of Motorola Mobility (CD Nov 4 p18). Rockstar’s lawsuits have created “a cloud onrnGoogle's Android platform; threatened Google's business and relationships with its customers and partners,rnas well as its sales of Nexus-branded Android devices; and created a justiciable controversy betweenrnGoogle and Rockstar,” Google said in the lawsuit. Rockstar did not comment.
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