Patent war technology industry is heating up again, Motorola has just claimed that Apple has been sued because of Apple's products are suspected of a series of patent infringement, including the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac computers. Overall, the three Motorola mobile complaints, including 18 patents, which involves the early development of Motorola's key technology areas, which are allegedly used by Apple's core products and related services, including MobileMe and App Store. Motorola's patents including wireless communications technologies, such as WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, smart phones key technologies - including wireless email, proximity sensor technology, software application management, location services and multi-device synchronization.
“We have extensively licensed our industry-leading intellectual property portfolio, consisting of tens of thousands of patents in the US and worldwide,” Kirk Dailey, Motorola Mobility’s corporate vice president of intellectual property, said in a statement. “After Apple’s late entry into the telecommunications market, we engaged in lengthy negotiations, but Apple has refused to take a license. We had no choice but to file these complaints to halt Apple’s continued infringement.”
The patents in question (listed below) are divided among three separate lawsuits. Six of them—’333, ‘862, ‘697, ‘317, ‘223, and ‘826—are also named in the parallel complaint filed with the ITC.
The multiple lawsuits come just days after Microsoft launched a major patent infringement suit against Motorola, claiming its Android-based smartphones infringe on nine of its patents. Android has also been the target of a lawsuit levied by Oracle against Google over the use of Java. Patent infringement claims are also pending between Apple and HTC, Apple and Nokia, and numerous other companies competing in the smartphone space.
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