IP.com Company Blog Obviates Confusion
We're often asked how blogging helps the company.
While it's sometimes hard to find metrics that show exactly how this blog is making a meaningful difference in how IP.com is perceived in the intellectual property community, it's good to know that journalists writing for major media sources are apparently reading our corporate blog.
The Register, a widely-read technology publication based in the UK, recently reported on a lawsuit brought by a company called IPCom GmbH & Co that has been "trying to get money out of Nokia, to the tune of €12bn" in this legal action, "which has been rumbling along for the last 12 months at least." As noted in a recent article headlined:
Nokia calls foul over patent spat
Nokia has lodged a complaint with the European Commission, claiming that IPCom is abusing mobile patents originally owned by Bosch that are already the subject of legal action in the UK and Germany.
The patents concerned relate to GSM and were developed by Bosch back when that company had aspirations on the telecommunications market, but transferred to IPCom GmbH & Co (not to be confused with IP.Com) in 2007. Since then IPCom has been trying to get money out of Nokia, to the tune of €12bn, for licensing those patents.
What's interesting about this from our perspective, as we've emphasized above, is that the reporter apparently googled IPCom GmbH & Co and found this blog post that obviates any confusion between that company and IP.com Inc., which is unrelated and is not suing Nokia for bazillions. Kudos to reporter Bill Ray for doing his homework and making sure his readers are well-informed about this legal action, which is probably the largest patent infringement claim in history.
