Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents.
手机行业巨头苹果和谷歌已经同意搁置针对对方的技术专利诉讼。(英国广播公司)
The two Silicon Valley technology giants said they are dropping lawsuits against one another and will work together in some areas of patent reform. The dismissed suits involve patent disputes regarding Google’s Motorola Mobility handset unit. The deal doesn’t include Apple’s ongoing patent battles with Samsung,which uses Google’s Android software for mobile devices. The agreement does not include a cross licence.
这两家硅谷的巨头企业称,他们撤销了各自针对对方企业的诉讼并将在专利改革的部分领域进行合作。撤销的专利诉讼包括关于谷歌的摩托罗拉移动手机部门的专利争端,但不包括苹果和三星正在进行的专利战部分,这其中三星使用了谷歌的安卓软件来进行手机设计。协议也不包括交叉专利部分。(《南华早报》)
Motorola sued Apple for patent infringement in 2010,and Apple countersued. Google inherited the suits when it bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012 in part to obtain Motorola’s portfolio of thousands of patents,which it used to defend its Android mobile-operating system from intellectual-property claims by Apple,Microsoft Corp and others. Google earlier this year agreed to sell Motorola’s devices unit to Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. for $2.9 billion,though it would keep Motorola’s patents.
摩托罗拉在2010年起诉苹果侵权,苹果进行了反起诉。谷歌在2012年以125亿美元买下摩托罗拉移动电话后,获得了摩托罗拉数以千计的专利组合,得以抵御来自苹果、微软和其它企业关于其安卓移动运营系统的知识产权争议,同时也承接了这起诉讼。今年早些时候,谷歌同意将摩托罗拉的设计部门以29亿美元出售给中国的计算机制造商联想集团,不过仍将保留摩托罗拉的专利权。(《华尔街日报》)
Apple’s iOS software and Google’s Android power the majority of the world’s smartphones and tablets and both are seeking to keep their pre-eminent positions in those growing markets. Both are also duelling each other in areas including mobile maps,online music and other products.
苹果的iOS软件和谷歌的安卓软件占领了全球智能手机和平板电脑的大部分市场,两家企业都希望能在这些增长中的市场中保持其领先的地位。两家企业也都在包括移动手机地图、在线音乐和其它产品等领域进行竞争。(《南华早报》)
Apple-which produces iPhones-and firms that make phones using Google’s Android software earlier . Android software is now installed on some 80% of new phones sold every year.
苹果公司生产iPhone手机,它早先使用谷歌的安卓软件来生产手机。安卓软件现在安装在每年80%的新手机上。(英国广播公司)
Until Friday,Apple and Google were locked in about 20 lawsuits against each other in the U.S. and Germany. Once allies,Apple and Google are butting heads more frequently,eying the same acquisition targets and top engineering talent as each company’s business in areas such as maps,voice-based search,streaming video devices and Web browsers bleeds into the other’s.
直到上周五,苹果和谷歌还在美国和德国陷于约20宗相互间的法律诉讼中。由于每家企业的业务在诸如地图、基于语音识别技术的搜索服务、流动媒体视频设备和网络浏览器等方面互相渗透,一旦结盟,苹果和谷歌将会更多地撞车,瞄准同样的并购目标和一流的工程技术。(《华尔街日报》)
“It’s always in the interest of consumers when cooler heads prevail,”said Al Hilwa,an analyst at researcher IDC.“Anything that can make the ecosystem more interoperable and for people to kind of easily move from one ecosystem to another is good for everyone.”
IDC分析师表示,企业冷静下来,这对于消费者而言是好事。任何能够让生态体系更能彼此合作,能使大家从一个生态系统很容易地转向另一个生态系统的事情,对每个人来说都是好事。(《南华早报》)
Despite the detente,Google still faces patent litigation from a company that is partially owned by Apple called the Rockstar Consortium. Rockstar was set up as a joint venture owned by Apple,Microsoft,BlackBerry Ltd.,Ericsson Inc. and Sony Corp. after that group beat out Google in a bidding war for patents owned by Nortel Networks Inc. in 2011. Rockstar last November launched a barrage of lawsuits against Google as well as makers of Android devices.
尽管局势已经缓和,但是谷歌仍面临Rockstar Consortium的专利侵权。Rockstar Consortium是苹果、微软、黑莓、爱立信和索尼公司的合资企业,2011年,这一联合集团和谷歌在争夺北电网络公司所拥有的专利权时将谷歌击败。去年11月,Rockstar发起对谷歌和安卓制造商的系列法律诉讼。(《华尔街日报》)
While the agreement settles differences between Apple and Google’s Motorola Mobility over basic patents,Apple has been embroiled in litigation against Samsung,the biggest maker of Android smartphones. In a second trial that ended earlier this month,Apple won $US120 million from Samsung after seeking $US2 billion in damages. The jury also found that Apple infringed one Samsung patent,awarding it $US158,000.
这项协议解决了苹果和谷歌的摩托罗拉移动手机部门关于基本专利权方面的争议。但苹果公司还面临针对三星的侵权诉讼,三星是安卓智能手机最大的制造商。在本月早些时候结束的第二项审讯中,苹果公司在索要20亿损害赔偿后,从三星公司赢得了1.2亿美元。陪审团也发现了苹果侵犯了三星的一项专利,判罚15.8万美元。(《南华早报》)
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