Google, Motorola ordered to give Android data to Apple

By on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Legal March 6, 2012

A U.S. judge has ordered Google and Motorola Mobility to turn over information about the development of the Android operating system and Google’s pending $12.5 billion acquisition of the manufacturer to Apple, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Motorola opposed Apple’s request, arguing that Google isn’t a party to the lawsuit. “Google’s employees and documents are not within the ‘possession, custody, or control’ of Motorola, and Motorola cannot force Google to produce documents or witnesses over Google’s objections,” the vendor’s lawyers said in a court filing on Monday. Apple’s attorneys argued that “the Android/Motorola acquisition discovery is highly relevant to Apple’s claims and defenses.” Judge Richard A. Posner has scheduled back-to-back trials before two separate juries starting June 11th. The first trial will address six Apple patents while the second will cover three Motorola patents.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=526573488 Sean Badoud

    are you kidding me? why is there third party to review this?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=744916256 Ryles Malone

    I have mixed feelings about this. Google’s disregard for patents is coming to light all the time. Out of ignorance and uneducated opinion, I’ve accused them of stealing and just generally being evil. This is simply how they appear regardless of how much I thought I loved their free stuff and their epic search. This is how I still percieve Google operations, however Apple is kind of being a bitch with all this litigation. I guess I’m comparing this behaviour with what I’ve recently seen Microsoft do http://shar.es/f81KY.

    I’ve never really been a fan of Apple but I can’t argue with their stock price and market share. I’d buy Apple stock to ride the wave but this behaviour doesn’t inspire tingly feelings about Apple as a company either. I’d like to see Apple and Google cancel eachother out and see Microsoft rise in their place and take over. I’m sure Microsoft isn’t perfectly ideal either, but they seem way less evil than Google and way less pissy than Apple.

    Microsoft simply makes the best products. People only had a problem because they made so much money, but they did so making legit proprietary products that people simply haven’t spent the money, technology or other resources to produce. They earned it. They’ve been caught for patent stuff sure, but they also seem to make deals when people infringe on their stuff. This seems normal, and out of pure principle, they are more deserving of my support. Hopefully Google and Apple wallow in what they are creating.. a legal mess (Google’s fault probably), let those more deserving come rescue us.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=122201279 Christopher Reid

    Frankly Apple can go eat a fat one. Yes Google has show blatant desregard for intalecctual property rights; however, Apple will patent everything and anything as “new” and “novel” so some guy has something “revolutionary” to announce at some overhyped waste of time event. What’s next, they will pattent talking on a cell phone?

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