WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc will fight patent holder Rockstar Consortium in a California court instead of a Texas court that lawyers consider more friendly toward plaintiffs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday ordered proceedings stayed in Texas over whether handsets made by Samsung Electronics , HTC Corp , AsuSTEK Computer , LG Electronics and ZTE Corp infringed on Rockstar's patents because they used Google's Android operating system. Rockstar had filed the lawsuits in a Texas federal court, which is generally viewed as a friendly forum for patent owners. ...



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