Bloomberg Law
Nov. 23, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

Google, Amazon, Apple Are Targets of Uniloc Lawsuit Blitz

Malathi Nayak
Malathi Nayak
Reporter

An EU-based patent-holding company has launched an array of litigation against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Amazon.com Inc., scooping up scores of old patents and hitting the tech giants with infringement lawsuits.

Uniloc Luxembourg SA and its U.S. unit have filed 28 lawsuits against Apple, 21 against Amazon and 14 against Google this year, Bloomberg Law data show. The company has filed 171 lawsuits in 2018 as of Nov. 23, the data show. Uniloc has been more active this year than some other patent-assertion entities. Intellectual Ventures Management LLC has filed 18 lawsuits during the same period, PersonalWeb Technologies ...

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