It’s official! Motorola has just filed a patent infringement complaint against Apple. In their lawsuit, Motorola has targeted Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and certain Mac computers for using patented technology.
Motorola has claimed infringement of 18 patents in their complaint, which includes different wireless communication technologies, smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services and multi-device synchronization.
Kirk Dailey, corporate vice president of intellectual property at Motorola Mobility, said,
“Motorola has innovated and patented throughout every cycle of the telecommunications industry evolution, from Motorola’s invention of the cell phone to its development of premier smartphone products. We have extensively licensed our industry-leading intellectual property portfolio, consisting of tens of thousands of patents in the U.S. and worldwide. 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. Motorola will continue to take all necessary steps to protect its R&D and intellectual property, which are critical to the company’s business.”
We haven’t heard anything from Apple’s officials yet, but we might get a response over the lawsuit issue soon.
Just few days back, Microsoft sued Motorola over patent infringement issue and now Motorola is doing the same with Apple. This patent war is getting very serious these days, as many big fishes have once again started suing each other.