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this episode of android authority is brought to you by carbonite automatic cloud backup for your computer files at home and at work start your free trial at carbonite.com with the offer code android and you'll get two bonus months with purchase welcome back to android weekly my name is Jason this is where we cover the week's Android news now you might think that the Christmas week was a slow news week when it comes to android but on the contrary we found some interesting leaks regarding the galaxy notepro BAM LG wearables oh yeah and trolls no not that type of trolling I'm talking patent trolls and because when it comes to patent trolls users or the only losers I'm a little hot under the collar so today is all gonna be about a bully beatdown oh sorry sorry alright let's go back to the basics you all know but a company called Google but do you know but a company called rock star not that type of company rock star isn't even a real company so much as a consortium of companies led by Apple Microsoft and blackberry to name a few and what they've done is bought a host of patents by a now defunct company called nortel and Rockstar hires a team of engineers to take those patents and search for other successful tech products by other successful companies to see if possibly their patents are being infringed upon now their patents don't really need to be infringed upon but if there's a possible open interpretation that they might they can then sue those companies for you know patent infringement ah but it gets worse you see rockstar doesn't make any products with these patents they don't work the patents as was originally intended when patent law was formed what they do do is use it as a form of corporate bullying and it's nasty let me just give you a short example from these court documents one of their titles of these patents that they're suing for is called a navigational tool for graphical user interface so how many devices do you use every day that has some sort of navigational tool for graphical user interface a lot a lot now I'm not going into the detail of the actual patent itself but it just gives you an example of the open general you know patents that are being given out I mean you could argue this camera I'm shooting on has a tool for national you know graphical user interface are they infringing on rockstars patents I mean it's crazy it's crazy and they use this as an offensive corporate tool so for example last year or two years ago Apple countersued Samsung to try and stop them from selling that the galaxy s4 in the u.s. is just it's crazy it is totally opposing the whole original purpose for patent law was that you know if you could create something innovative that people truly wanted you should be granted on my knob for a few short years so you can reap the benefits of your great idea of your innovation but then I could make a competitor's product based on your innovation I just have to pay you a license for it so you win I win and the consumer wins right now no one wins except for the lawyers who charge millions of dollars to fight these fruitless legal battles so you remember how last week I spent time cautioning you about the importance of backing up your irreplaceable files yeah so you'd think I'd know better by now but I get distracted because I like to blow stuff up or more specifically just pone my teenage boys all right writing next week's show looks done looks good dad it's your time to get pwned on cod yeah she did it now but then i remembered that before i went to play i forgot to backup my hours of hard work and i lost it dad wake up dad see if you have a way to back up your most important data online automatically you won't have to suffer the way I did it's okay yes it wasn't pretty but whether you have multiple computers at home or at work Carbonite has an affordable plan for you to do just that automatically backup your most important data online so you don't have to now I can hook you up with a free trial no credit card required if you go to carbonite.com with the offer code android you get two bonus months if you decide to buy moving on to some happier news with the Samsung Galaxy Note pro but warning this is just a rumor nothing has yet been officially announced we have learned of a 12.2 inch Galaxy Note pro android tablet reportedly being demoed in South Korea just a few days ago with the device expected to be unveiled as early as next month at CES 2014 as far as specs and features the tablet is said to have a 2560 x 1600 resolution LC display 2.4 gigahertz earth 3 gigabytes of ram and a whopping 9500 milliamp hour battery and of course running android 4.4 kitkat now these rumors turned out to be true that would mean that this tablet would have the biggest battery out of any of the Samsung tablets thus far so why should any of us really care about a 12 point 2 inch tablet well for many years now people have been throwing around that term post-pc era that hasn't fully transpired really i mean the vast majority of you are probably still watching this on a laptop or desktop right now so I believe this is Samsung's attempt to begin to close that gap especially if they can couple this heavy-duty tablet hardware with office like software pro software like something that can be used for office and power users so you and I can begin to think about finally doing away with our laptop once and for all now on to LG wearable devices now numerous reports have come out that LG is not just working on a new LG g3 but two new wearable devices the first one is called G arch which is some sort of SmartWatch device and the second is called G health which is some sort of fitness tracker will be looking forward to more news in the coming year thanks for watching Android peeps my name is Jace and I need to remind you that all the work that I do here is based on the great writing done by the staff at android authority com I'm just a guy who likes to talk tech but they are 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