While you’re having your Sunday morning coffee/Saturday noon lunch, in comes the news about things getting steamier between two ex-lovers. Apple has the counter-sued Motorola for infringing about six patents related to multi-touch screen and the mobile OS. Did you think I was talking about Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt? No. It’s Apple’s upper cut to Motorola’s chin
Earlier this month Motorola had filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing about 18 patents. And now Apple responded back two different lawsuits that cover total six patents mostly focused on multi-touch and a couple of OS level ones.
Apple believes that at least one of the follow Motorola devices infringe multi-touch and OS level patents – Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm.
Here’s a list of six patents that Apple alleges to be infringed by Motorola:
– 7,812,828: Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces
So now if we sum up, Apple has alleged Motorola of infringing about 26 patents in total. Now it’s no more about – you sue me, I sue you. Apple COO Tim Cook once noted that – we like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does.
How would you feel that the Nokia, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, or Apple handsets you’re carrying are actually infringing some patents? I’m sure you won’t give a damn but for the company, it’s a fruit of the engineering team’s hard work. However, these patent infringement lawsuits aren’t going to affect the sales of Apple or Motorola devices directly as of now.
