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Apple Sues Motorola Over Multi-Touch

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In early October, Motorola announced that it had filed suit against Apple over alleged infringement of a number of patents by a broad range of Apple products, including the iPhone, iPad, "iTouch" (presumably iPod touch), and certain Mac computers.

Late Friday, in a seemingly retaliatory move, Apple filed suit against Motorola over the potential infringement of six Apple patents covering Multi-touch technology. The legal documents uncovered by PatentlyApple reveal that the lawsuit encompasses the following Apple patents:
- Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces
- Multipoint Touchscreen
- Object-Oriented System Locator System
- Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics
- Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Accessing Control and Status Information in a Computer System
- Support for Custom User-Interaction Elements in a Graphical, Event-Driven Computer System
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The offending Motorola devices include the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm. The mobile industry has been littered with lawsuits between the major players. Apple specifically is involved in lawsuits with Nokia, HTC, Kodak, Elan and now Motorola.

Article Link: Apple Sues Motorola Over Multi-Touch
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/30/apple-sues-motorola-over-multi-touch/
This is like trying to sue people for using a touch screen. It's the next generation of input, get over it, Apple. You can't have a complete monopoly on everything.
 
Are these lawsuit more along the lines of "what can I get away with" rather than you actually infringed on my technology?

After my first 3 Motorola phones went to the grave, I decided never to own another Motorola.
 
andrew086 said:
This is like trying to sue people for using a touch screen. It's the next generation of input, get over it, Apple. You can't have a complete monopoly on everything.
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So what is your advice for Motorola then? Motorola suing Apple for patent infringement is fine, but Apple countersuing Motorola means "get over it"?
 
Apple, Inc patent titled: Multipoint Touchscreen: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.
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This is very lame and ridiculous... Apple has NOT invented multipoint touchscreens... although they have got the patent...
Once again... we have an example of how patents are stupid and useless (at least in US...).
I wonder if I could get the patent for the process of inhaling and exhaling air using biological bags...
 
Motorola is suing Apple because Apples business is BOOMING, and they want a piece of that pie. Good for Apple for countersuing. Innovation = profits, lawsuit = lazy way of getting money.
 
This discussion should be fun.... lots of entertainment! < eating pop corn >

Patent discussions are always the best!

<yum pop corn>
 
ChrisTX said:
Motorola is suing Apple because Apples business is BOOMING, and they want a piece of that pie. Good for Apple for countersuing. Innovation = profits, lawsuit = lazy way of getting money.
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You do know that Apple has a quite extensive history of being the plaintiff in lawsuits right?
 
I'm surprised this took so long I rember back at the orignal iPhone keynote steve said "we patten this like crazy"
 
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macfan881 said:
I'm surprised this took so long I rember back at the orignal iPhone keynote steve said "we patten this like crazy"
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Apple have already lost the Visual Voice Mail patent.... a patent may be granted but may not survive a law suite or re-examination.
 
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That flow chart that was up here not too long ago was comical. All the big tech companies suing each other. It was a little astonishing to see all the suits and cross suits.
 
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Perhaps the companies are doing this to show how outrageous this has gotten over the years
 
companies do this all the time. One company sues another and and the company that was sued lodges a counter lawsuit so both companys have leverage in court and can come to an agreement and both will drop there lawsuits on each other.

Apple is simply doing this for some leverage when they go to court.
 
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