Motorola Mobility sues Apple for patent infringement

By on Oct 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Legal October 6, 2010

Today, Motorola Mobility announced a lawsuit against Apple, Inc. alleging the Cupertino company’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, as well as certain Mac computers, infringe upon eighteen of Motorola’s patents. The accusations are fairly broad:

The Motorola patents include wireless communication technologies, such as WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services and multi-device synchronization.

Motorola is looking for the International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Apple from importing the aforementioned equipment.

“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,” said Kirk Daily, corporate vice president of intellectual property at Motorola.

We’re not going to hold our breath waiting for this one to be resolved.

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  • TypicalVZWRMDBAG

    OMG! APPLE SUCKS, DROID RULES!

    • Steve Jobs

      hahaha verry funny indeed Eric. verrrrry verrry funny. you copied my os. i hate you

  • Drew

    LOL!!! This is comical…. Motorola invented the cell phone and has an expansive portfolio of patents. This is the wrath you face for waking sleeping giants. And for this, Apple you will p$y.

    • Steve Jobs

      nope cant make me.

    • MadSkillz

      And who else is next. Surely they aren’t going to stop at Apple. Hey isn’t Microsoft suing Motorola?

  • Scott

    Sounds a little like Moto is butt hurt about having less US market share than Apple and Apple has only been in it for 3 years.

    It took Android (which is free) to pull Moto from going under…

    These patent lawsuits are just silly. Just give it a rest and try to make better and innovative products!

    • what

      Butt hurt? What? If anything, its Apple that’s getting raped.

      Apple’s sued HTC and Moto… looks like Apple can’t take the heat anymore? Oh that’s right, it’s because HTC and Moto make better devices than the iPhone and Apple is getting worried… but then again in about 2 years there market share won’t be much anyways.

      Soon, Apple will be in the same league as RIM…actually RIM will still have more relevance, because people will realize they at least provide a product that businesses can use.

      Here’s my source: http://www.dailytech.com/Study+Android+is+Terminating+RIM+Apples+Marketshare/article19808.htm

      Have fun with your iPhone and following the rest of the iSheep.

      • Scott

        So, since I like an Apple product, I’m automatically a sheep? So, since you like an Android product, what does that make you, a Lamb? BAHHH! BAHH! lol

        I’m not saying Moto can’t make some pretty nice hardware. But facts are facts and Moto was on their way out had it not been for Android.

        When you’ve got nothing to lose, why not give a FREE OS a try?

      • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

        Yes you ARE! And WHAT and I are GOOSHEEP.

        (don’t tell WHAT, he probably doesn’t realize it! Not too clever you see! :-)

        But WHAT’s right about quality. He as I and all Goofans aka Apple Haters know, iPhone was built with glue and gum and cheap components in a sweat shop and HTC and Moto are built with Gold Standard components in well paid American factories.

      • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

        And WHAT, you are also right in NOT SAYING that HTC and Moto are competitors! They don’t want to compete against each other because they report to your and my lord savior Eric Schmidt.

        What, you and I have to get together and sing the GOOGLE songs and together migrate together to GooglePlex.

      • Chris

        phag…..enjoy your broke down OS: phagdroid…

      • Chris

        Isn’t that a bit oxymoronic to say that iPhone purchasers are “iSheep” when the stream is flowing in the Android direction? Regardless of the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of your claim, it is a fundamentally flawed statement. Sticking with Apple now or choosing to move to Apple goes against the flow — more like salmon than sheep, really.

  • Martin

    Droid FTW

    • Steve Jobs

      Eric i can check your ip. you traitor.

  • 3 Phones Jugglin

    Anyone that sues Apple for being Assholes….since theyve wanted to Muscle and Monopolize for every petty thing…is a winner in my book.

  • Firegvw

    This is kinda getting ridiculous. everybody is sue happy these days but apple should buy their liscenses even if it is a competing company. if motorola/verizon has to pay george lucas to say droid. apple you have to pay for the right to say cell phone and build off their tech. just how the world works. i mean it’s not like you dont know about people stealing your tech and improving on it or anything.

  • Thablackguy

    ALL these companies need to GROW UP !! Seriously this is so petty…

  • towmater

    Apple started it by suing other companies on patent infringement like they are the only ones that can innovate. Back on you apple!

  • rusty

    FU APPLE. tech for shitheads. Die stupid crap company. all your products are assraping money stealing shit. I hope Jobs gets raped through his faggy jeans!

  • hfva

    it is not Droid or IOS this crap has to stop by all companies. people we are all going to end up paying for the outcome. the court system is already behind and we do not need garbage like this from any company and before any one flame me that also includes Apple, MS, Motorola and those patent trolls and so on……

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • MicroNix

    Apple picked on the wrong company this time. Good for you Moto! You were making phones even before Apple got Jobs back in and there was anything called an iPod let along an iPhone.

    Next sue Microshaft for again, you had phones before they thought of having their bloated OS on a phone! I’m sure you can dig up some decent patents on them too.

    Nice to see the good guys strike back at all these pompous egotistical companies who think they invented everything we use today. Palm should have got in on the action and sued the living daylights out of Apple because the iPhone was a blatant rip off of Palm technologies. The iPhone brought a nice ecosystem with it that no one had but was by no means an original idea.

    • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

      Oh man! You read my mind! Apple doesn’t have a SINGLE engineering and I am ashamed they are an American company! All their products are crappy copycats of anything from Moto, to Victoria’s Secret!

      MiniNix you and I know that Google’s HUMBLE and doesn’t even know the meaning of the word EGO. They have NO ARROGANCE, especially when they, correctly so, kick you off their ad networks cause they didn’t like something you did, and of course it’s not their fault they own 70% of the market!

      • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

        Ooops, I get so excited when I talk about Google and infuriated when I talk Apple (a la MiniNix) that I typed ENGINEERING instead of ENGINEER! Please forgive me…

    • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

      Oh, and another thing, MOTO would NEVER, MiniNix knows, EVER EVER EVER take anyone’s technology! They, just because of their relationship with our lord Eric S are perfect in every way….

      • MicroNix

        I think you need to soak some more in your Goo…

  • counsel

    I need to read the filing, but i think this might go moto’s way…

  • hfva

    @Goofan (aka Apple Hater),

    are you 100% sure that Moto and HTC devices are built by Americans in American factories? I must say that you need to double check. oh by the way HTC is not an American company and actually is a Taiwanese company that builds it’s devices in both Taiwan and China. check the facts Moto is breathing on thin air and the only thing that might save it financially is if hey sue and sue and sue. Most of Moto sales are in China and the majority (if not close to all) of it’s devices are built in China

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • zee

      speaking of checking facts…… did you know that iphones are not made in usa. screen is made by lg, memory is made by samsung, foxconn assembles it. this is business. im not trash talking apple but its the truth.

    • Drew

      “…Most of Moto sales are in China….” Any idea of how many people live in China?? How is Motorola breathing on thin air??

  • JM

    I am pretty sure that one if them will win.

  • hfva

    @zee,

    that is correct. just in case I did not mean to imply that the iPhone was manufactured in the US

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • zee

      noted. bad news guys i dropped my ipad today. there is a small little crack on screen. everytime i look at it, my heart breaks. thus realizing i am weird.

  • hfva

    @Drew,

    yes moto sales are more in china. the Chinese market is way larger than here in the USA. and for a fact Moto makes more handsets than we see here but are only sold in China. I had at many times ordered moto handsets from the web that were only sold in China and those had more features than any device Moto sold here in the US. Moto was on thin ice due to major losses as well as a big loss in market share. the Droid has helped stay afloat I’m the past year and Moto needs to continue to come out with devices and not repeat the Razr snafu. consumers will end up being bored so innovation needs to continue.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • hfva

    @Drew,

    yes moto sales are more in china. the Chinese market is way larger than here in the USA. and for a fact Moto makes more handsets than we see here but are only sold in China. I had at many times ordered moto handsets from the web that were only sold in China and those had more features than any device Moto sold here in the US. Moto was on thin ice due to major losses as well as a big loss in market share. the Droid has helped stay afloat I’m the past year and Moto needs to continue to come out with devices and not repeat the Razr snafu. consumers will end up being bored so innovation needs to continue.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Mr.Bill

    Wtg Moto.

    Finish what Apple started, with flair.

    Its come time to slap the Justin Beiber of the tech world around a bit.

  • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

    Hey Mr.Bill, Ms.Bill is asking for her balls back. Anyway, I am assuming you are calling Apple Justin Bieber??? Correct? How dare you insult Justin that way??? Has he done something to you? Arrogant prick!!!!!! If I ever here you hate on my Beaver again, you and I will have WORDS!

  • patrick

    Moto could retire on patents alone.

  • jlee

    Right or wrong, all these companies suing each other back and forth over minute details in thousands and thousands of patents….. all I see is a room full of 6 year olds poking, prodding, pulling each others hair, whining and crying about which soccer ball belongs to who.

    How much of this is actual infringement on designs and how much of it is nitpicking over tiny details for the sake of penny warfare?

  • Rock the cock

    Who gives a f**k about it all, none of your are getting a cut of the lawsuit, its not interfering with your life and for sure do you have any ties with this lawsuit so why worry or give a damn!!!! Let the companies worry and stop fighting on here like Nerdy ass B*tches!!!!!

  • Spaceforthepoppa

    It’s about time some of the big companies turned this tactic around on Apple, probably the most sue-happy company on the planet. Apple had been playing this game for years, sometimes to good effect. It more than “iPhone is better than …” or vice-versa … it’s about using legal resources to gain dominance in the market, not innovation …

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