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The smartphone wars or smartphone patents licensing and litigation refers to commercial struggles among manufacturers including (formerly ), , Apple Inc., Samsung Mobile, , , Motorola, , , and , by patent litigation and other means. The conflict is part of the wider "patent wars" between technology and software corporations.

To secure and increase , companies that have granted a can sue to prevent competitors from using the methods the patent covers. Since 2010 the number of lawsuits, , and trade complaints based on patents and designs in the market for smartphones, and devices based on smartphone OSes such as Android and , has increased significantly.

Timeline
Initial suits, countersuits, rulings, license agreements, and other significant events in italics:

2009
The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009, as demand for smartphones accelerated dramatically with the advent of the modern smartphone, which combined a responsive touchscreen with a modern multitasking operating system. This browser provided full web access and an , in the form of the Apple iPhone 3G and the first Android phones.
  • 2009, Oct 22: Nokia sues Apple over 10 patents.
  • 2009, Dec 11: Apple countersued Nokia over 13 patents.
  • 2009, Dec 29: Nokia files a second lawsuit and a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) complaint against Apple over 7 more patents.

2010
  • 2010, Jan 15: Apple files an ITC complaint against Nokia over 9 patents.
  • 2010, Feb 19: Apple drops 4 patents from their countersuit against Nokia that are in their ITC complaint against Nokia.
  • 2010, Feb 24: Apple countersues Nokia in Nokia's second lawsuit, over the 9 patents that are in Apple's ITC complaint.
  • 2010, Mar 02: Apple sues HTC over 10 patents and files an ITC complaint against HTC over 10 other patents.
  • 2010, Apr 26: 5 of the patents in Apple's ITC complaint against Nokia are merged into their ITC complaint against HTC.
  • 2010, Apr 27: HTC signs an agreement with Microsoft to license Microsoft patents in return for royalties on HTC's Android-based devices (rumored to be $5 per handset).
  • 2010, May 7: Nokia files a third lawsuit against Apple over 5 more patents.
  • 2010, May 12: HTC files an ITC complaint against Apple over 5 patents.
  • 2010, May 28: S3 Graphics files an ITC complaint against Apple over 4 patents used in the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple computers.
  • 2010, Jun 28: Apple countersues Nokia in Nokia's third lawsuit, over 7 more patents.
  • 2010, Jul 06: HTC countersues Apple over 3 patents.
  • 2010, Jul 21: Nokia drops 1 patent from their ITC complaint against Apple.
  • 2010, Aug 12: Oracle sues Google over 7 patents relating to the use of Java in Android. See Oracle v. Google.
  • 2010, Sep 17: Nokia adds 2 more patents to their third lawsuit against Apple.
  • 2010, Sep 27: Apple sues Nokia in the UK and Germany over 9 patents.
  • 2010, Sep 30: Nokia countersues Apple in Germany over 4 patents.
  • 2010, Oct 01: Microsoft files an ITC complaint and a lawsuit against Motorola over 9 patents.
  • 2010, Oct 06: Motorola sues Apple over 18 patents, and files an ITC complaint against Apple over 6 of them.
  • 2010, Oct 08: Motorola files a request for declaratory judgment that they do not infringe 12 Apple patents, and that those patents be declared invalid. Motorola seeks to invalidate Apple phone patents.
  • 2010, Oct 29: Apple sues Motorola over 6 patents, and files an ITC complaint against Motorola over 3 of them. Apple Files Lawsuit against Motorola to Defend Multi-Touch. Apple Patent Case Against Motorola to Get Trade Agency Review.
  • 2010, Dec 01: Apple adds the 12 patents to their suit against Motorola that Motorola previously requested a declaratory judgment that they do not infringe. Apple vs. Motorola: now 42 patents-in-suit (24 Apple and 18 Motorola patents).

2011

2012
  • 2012, Jan 17: Apple files a lawsuit in Düsseldorf regional court, Germany, against Samsung, claiming the Galaxy S2 infringes on Apple patents.
  • 2012, Mar 7: Samsung files a lawsuit in Seoul's Central district court claiming that the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringe on three of its patents.
  • 2012, Mar 7: Judge Allan Gropper ruled that Apple was disallowed from suing Kodak for patent infringement. arguing that it would be an "inappropriate way forward".Whittaker, Zach, Kodak sues, tells Apple: 'get off our patents', , cnet.com.au, June 20, 2012. Accessed July 30, 2012.
  • 2012, May 22: Google Inc. completes acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
  • 2012, Jun 10: Apple sues Samsung over its autocorrect patent in San Jose, Calif.
  • 2012, Jun 23: Federal Judge Posner throws out Apple-Motorola case with prejudice.
  • 2012, Jun 29: Apple is granted an injunction against import of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
  • 2012, Jun 30: Judge grants Apple an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
  • 2012, Jul 1: Samsung files an appeal against Apple's injunction against the Galaxy Nexus.
  • 2012, Jul 2: Nokia claims that the Nexus 7 infringes on its patents.
  • 2012, Jul 4: A high court in the UK rules that three of the four patents Apple brought up against HTC are invalid.
  • 2012, Jul 6: Google and Samsung are forced to degrade the universal search bar on the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3 as a result of an injunction granted to Apple by Judge Lucy Koh.
  • 2012, Jul 6: The ITU announces that it is convening a patent roundtable on October 10 in Geneva to have stakeholders resolve their differences.
  • 2012, Jul 9: Samsung wins a patent dispute on the Galaxy Tab against Apple in the UK. Judge Colin Birss stated that Samsung's tablets were "not as cool" as Apple's, and "do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design."
  • 2012, Jul 12: San Francisco-based EMG Technology sues Google in an East Texas court claiming the mobile version of Chrome infringes on its patent for "apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming, and scrolling internet content."
  • 2012, Jul 15: RIM is ordered to pay US$147 million to Mformation for infringement of its remote management patent.
  • 2012, Jul 18: Apple is granted 'the mother of all smartphone patents' by the , "encompassing the user interfaces Apple designed for blogging, e-mail, telephone, camera, video player, calendar, browser, widgets, search, notes, maps and most importantly, a multi-touch interface".
  • 2012, Jul 18: Apple is forced by UK Judge Birss to publish public apologies to Samsung on their website, stating that Samsung did not copy the iPad.
  • 2012, Jul 27: A Mannheim court bans Motorola's Android devices in Germany, ruling that they infringe on Microsoft's FAT patent.
  • 2012, Aug 23: A court in Seoul, South Korea, ruled that both Apple and Samsung had infringed each other's patents, and that Samsung had not copied the look and feel of Apple's products.
  • 2012, Aug 24: Apple wins patent dispute against Samsung and is awarded $1.049 billion in damages for 6 of the 7 patents brought to bear. Samsung is awarded $0 in counter suit. The jury deliberated for 3 days before coming to a verdict that found among other things that Samsung violated the "scrolling bounce back" patent and "pinch to zoom" patent of Apple.
  • 2012, Aug 31: A Tokyo court rules that Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets do not violate an Apple patent on technology that synchronizes music and videos between devices and servers.
  • 2012, Oct 11: A U.S. appellate court overturns the sales ban against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone finding that the district court in California "abused its discretion" in imposing a preliminary injunction on Galaxy Nexus sales and that Apple did not establish cause for a sales ban.
  • 2012, Oct 18: The Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld the High Court Judgement that Samsung's Galaxy Tablet didn't infringe Apple's designs. As part of the ruling, Apple has been instructed to run advertisements in select publications and on its website stating that Samsung didn't copy its tablet designs. This decision is valid throughout the European Union and led Darren Smyth, partner at EIP, to remark, "This will be the end of the line. An appeal to the Supreme Court is in principle possible, but there has been no indication so far that Apple plans such an appeal."
  • 2012, Oct 23: In a non-final Office action, the USPTO declares all 20 claims of Apple's rubber-banding patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381) invalid, including claim 19, which Apple successfully asserted against Samsung in the summer trial in California. The claims were rejected on grounds of 'obviousness' and 'lack of novelty'.
  • 2012, Nov 5: An Apple lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility over alleged patent abuse is thrown out by a US Federal Court.
  • 2012, Nov 13: HTC settles with Apple and agrees to pay royalties of an undisclosed sum to Apple Inc.
  • 2012, Nov 28: Ericsson, Swedish mobile communication infrastructure manufacturer, sues Samsung over patent infringement on its mobile infrastructure technology in the United States.
  • 2012, Dec 7: Preliminary United States Patent and Trademark Office ruling declares the Steve Jobs patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949, invalid on all 20 claims.
  • 2012, Dec 13: A US federal jury rules that Apple's iPhone infringed on three mobile device patents belonging to MobileMedia Ideas LLC, a company belonging to Nokia and Sony.
  • 2012, Dec 17: Judge Koh denies Apple's motion for permanent injunction against Samsung.
  • 2012, Dec 26: Samsung Electronics files a complaint against Ericsson with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) to ban some Ericsson products from sales in the US.

2013
  • 2013, June: ITC rules iPads infringe on Samsung patents.
  • 2013, August: ITC ruling from June vetoed, ITC blocks older Samsung phones for violating two Apple patents.
  • 2013, Oct 31: Rockstar Consortium, a consortium owned by companies including Apple and Microsoft, starts legal action against , and , and other makers of including , , , , and .
  • 2013, December 23: Google initiates legal action against Rockstar Consortium with a countersuit filed in San Jose, California.

2014
  • 2014, February: HTC and Nokia settled all their patent suits, with HTC paying an undisclosed amount to Nokia.
  • 2014, March: The $929 million judgment from the US trial Apple vs. Samsung becomes official. Samsung files a formal appeal.

2015

2016
  • 6 December: The SCOTUS decided 8-0 to reverse the decision from the 2012 Apple v. Samsung trial that awarded hundreds of millions to Apple and returned the case to the Federal Circuit court to define the appropriate legal standard to define "article of manufacture" because it is not the smartphone itself, but could be just the case and screen to which the design patents relate.
  • 8 July: Case (2016) Yue 03 Min Chu No. 1382 between Samsung and Huawei in China docketed.

2017
  • March: IWNCOMM obtain the first SEP injunction in China against Sony.

2018
  • 13 April: Samsung obtains an antisuit injunction against Huawei preventing them from enforcing two Chinese SEP injunctions.

2019
  • 26 February: Samsung and Huawei submit a motion for stay in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

2021
  • 12 July: Nokia sues OPPO in 4 different countries due to a 4G/5G patent(s)
  • 14 September: OPPO countersues Nokia in 9 different countries

See also
  • Litigation involving Apple Inc.
  • Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.
  • Google litigation
  • Motorola Mobility v. Apple Inc.
  • Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.
  • Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola Inc.
  • Samsung v. Huawei

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