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Rockstar, a patent consortium owned by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Sony, EMC and BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY), dropped a lawsuit against Huawei. Rockstar had sued Huawei, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and other Android manufacturers last fall, arguing that their products infringed on patents owned by Rockstar, which bought a trove of Nortel Networks' patents in 2011.
The dropping of the lawsuit represents a cracking in the coalition of Android OEMs Rockstar went after. The other defendants, besides Google, are Samsung Electronics, ZTE, LG Electronics, HTC, Pantech, and Asustek.
It's unclear if Huawei actually reached a formal settlement with Rockstar in exchange for Rockstar filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. "As a world-leading innovator and patent holder, Huawei has great respect for intellectual property rights," William Plummer, Huawei's vice president of external affairs, said in a statement to FierceWireless. "Licensing and cross-licensing of intellectual property rights is the normal course of business in the ICT...