Since Google’s acquisition of Motorola back in February, the Droid expert has stayed quiet about its previous grievances with Apple. But now, according to Bloomberg, Google’s Motorola division has filed a new patent lawsuit against Apple (following Samsung’s lead), opening some old wounds leftover from Motorola and Apple’s long-standing legal disputes. The complaint, submitted to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), names features like location reminders, email notifications, along phone and video players as possible infringements.
The complaints target Apple features used extensively in its product line up and given Google’s desire to block U.S. imports of Apple products (Apple manufactures its product line in Asia), a win would strike a major blow. Google seems to have its sights set on Apple destruction. The original patent dispute between Motorola Mobility and Apple was eventually dismissed in court, but Google’s Motorola division isn’t willing to lay it to rest.
“We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations,” wrote Motorola Mobility in an emailed statement.
The official document pertaining to this specific case won’t be available until Monday, so we will have to wait until the weekend’s over to learn the full details. The inevitable battle between Apple and Google may be a whole lot closer than we thought. And it’s nice to know we’ll have more legal battles to obsess over since Apple and Samsung’s recent disputes will soon reach a verdict.
FOSS Patent’s Florian Mueller notes that an ITC judge already made a preliminary judgement in the previous Motorola vs. Apple case, arguing that Apple did infringe on one of Motorola’s patent. The final ruling in the original case is expected to be released sometime next week. It’s also important to recognize, as Mueller points out, that if Motorola does achieve a ban on Apple products in the previous lawsuit, the iPad 4G and iPhone 4S would be exempt. Both use a Qualcomm chipset falling outside Motorola’s patent claims.
For mobile fans, Monday can’t come soon enough. Do you think Google and Motorola stand a chance against Apple?
That’s what happens when you are in the business of suing everyone for everything. Eventually, your competitors will wise up and use the same strategy against you. One that live by the sword will die by the sword.
I would LOVE to see Apple fall.
Dude are you an moron? This is fucking over consumers and slowing down the tech world. To h*ll with all fan boys. Both companies have great products let there be competition in the market place…. Why the h*ll would you wanna see one of the most innovative companies fail? Too closed you might say.. Yeah you’re right chrome books are open as hell… Not so. Apple puts there recent OS source right on there website for all to play with. Before you say some dumb@ss comment like that you should actually read some things.
The troll is strong with this one
I find a bit of irony in not spelling out the word “hell” (at least not consistently) but having not problem with spelling out the proverbial F bomb.
apple can buy 5 googles