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Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement
- Julie188 16y agoI wonder if this has anything to do with the suit by Microsoft. Maybe trying to win back the money it will use to settle? Or it found patents and then said -- hey, we can sue Apple .. Hooray!
- ergo98 16y agoThey don't put something like this together in a couple of days. Further a part of the complaint is that they're been trying to muscle Apple into licensing but Apple has been non-compliant. Really though, who would people expect to have the deepest, most fundamental patents? Motorola invented the mobile phone, and they've been doing fairly leading stuff since, not counting the past 3 years (when they got seriously off the tracks thanks to Windows Mobile). I doubt Motorola is shaking too hard at Microsoft's lawsuit, and I doubt they'll pay a penny to settle that. They might put out a token Windows Mobile 7 phone, or alternately cross license patents. This should all go away, though. Nonetheless, it's good to see Apple get hit because there's this growing meme that Apple invented everything, and they're the poor victim of everyone else's theft. It's a tired, baseless bit of nonsense.
- bradleyland 16y agoReminds me of GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Did no one run the simulations before firing off the first suit?
- anderzole 16y agowould you like to play a game?
- narrator 16y agoYeah it's called prisoner's dilemma. The strategy is called tit-for-tat. Bittorrent uses it to keep peers from misbehaving; look it up.
- tlrobinson 16y agoThere's one difference: the lawyers win.
- grsites 16y agoSo MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?
- recoiledsnake 16y agoOh yes you did. Nokia is suing Apple which is suing Nokia. For a full picture: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2010/10/6/1286346279929/mobilelawsuits-rvs-460.png http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...
- jrockway 16y agoWhat a great system we have. Those patents are most certainly ensuring innovation in the industry. Well, the lawyers are doing well, anyway.
- bobbyi 16y agohttp://gizmodo.com/5537316/htc-countersues-apple-to-stop-all-iphone-ipod-ipad-sales http://gizmodo.com/5537316/htc-countersues-apple-to-stop-all...
- grok2 16y agoMade a GraphViz version of the diagram in the article. See http://www.grok2.com/blog/2010/10/06/who-is-suing-who-in-the-mobile-world/ http://www.grok2.com/blog/2010/10/06/who-is-suing-who-in-the... Seems like a lot of the Japanese companies are getting sued willy-nilly. Wonder why?
- msbarnett 16y agoSeveral of those lawsuits have to do with LCD price-fixing, if I recall correctly.
- mgrouchy 16y agoThis is getting insane.
- nkassis 16y agoAnd ridiculous, at this point they should all realize it's not a win-win for anyone and create an open patent pool of some sort not like mpegla but more like an open pool of patent they can use, sue anyone who has patents in it and everyone goes after you.
- ddlatham 16y agoHere's a better visualization: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-in-the-telecoms-trade/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...
- grok2 16y agoWay cooler and way more immediate visual info that my GraphViz version. Nice job.
- bradleyland 16y agoThat's a great graphic. It incorporates a lot more information. I like George Kokkinidis' as well: http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209 http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209