Smartphone patent wars trade complaints based on patents and designs in the market for smartphones, and devices based on smartphone OSes such as Android and iOS, has increased significantly. Initial suits, countersuits, rulings, licence agreements, and other major events in "italics": The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009 as the smartphone market grew more rapidly. Smartphone patent wars The smartphone wars or smartphone patents licensing and litigation refers to commercial struggles among smartphone manufacturers including Sony Mobile, Google, Apple Inc., Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Huawei, LG Electronics, ZTE and HTC, by patent litigation and other means. The conflict is part
Market share liability mostly rejected because the strict requirements of applying market share liability. Courts have declined to expand the market-share approach to asbestos ("Becker v. Baron Bros."), handguns ("Hamilton v. Beretta"), and lead paint ("Santiago v. Sherwin Williams Co."). The market-share approach has been expanded to cases involving MTBE in the New York case "In re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether". Market share liability Market share liability is a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to establish a prima facie case against a group of product manufacturers for an injury caused by a product, even when the plaintiff does not know from which