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Gemalto Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit In US On Android

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PARIS (Dow Jones)--French smart card maker and digital security company Gemalto NV (GTO.FR) Monday said it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. against Google Inc. (GOOG), HTC Corp. (2498.TW), Motorola Inc. (MOT) and Samsung Electronics CO., Ltd. (005930.SE) and Samsung Telecommunications America LLC.

The lawsuit concerns the use of Gemalto's innovations in the Android operating system, Dalvik virtual machine and associated development tools and products, the company said in a statement.

The patented technologies in the lawsuit, in particular Gemalto's Java Card Technology, were developed in the 1990's at Gemalto's research and development facilities in Texas, Gemalto said.

According to the complaint on the website of the U.S. law firm hired by Gemalto, McKool Smith, the Java Card Technology enables Java applications and applications developed in other high level programming languages to run on resource-constrained devices such as smart cards and mobile phones.

The complaint says that the Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant Google develops and actively distributes to application developers and device manufacturers what it refers to as the "Android Platform", which incorporates Gemalto's patented Java Card Technology without its permission.

The complaint also says Taiwan's HTC, U.S. telecommunications company Motorola and Korean company Samsung Electronics make, use, sell and offer to sell Android Devices having the Android Operating System and Android Applications, including mobile phones.

"The Android devices provided by defendants that incorporate the Android Operating System and Android Applications infringe one or more claims of the patents-in-suit," the complaint says.

Source:The Wall Street Journal.

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