Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement(networkworld.com)
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Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement
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Reminds me of GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Did no one run the simulations before firing off the first suit?
There's one difference: the lawyers win.
Here's a better visualization:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...
That's a great graphic. It incorporates a lot more information. I like George Kokkinidis' as well:
http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209
http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209
Way cooler and way more immediate visual info that my GraphViz version. Nice job.
Made a GraphViz version of the diagram in the article. See
http://www.grok2.com/blog/2010/10/06/who-is-suing-who-in-the...
Seems like a lot of the Japanese companies are getting sued willy-nilly. Wonder why?
http://www.grok2.com/blog/2010/10/06/who-is-suing-who-in-the...
Seems like a lot of the Japanese companies are getting sued willy-nilly. Wonder why?
Several of those lawsuits have to do with LCD price-fixing, if I recall correctly.
So MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?
Oh yes you did. Nokia is suing Apple which is suing Nokia.
For a full picture: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...
For a full picture: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...
What a great system we have. Those patents are most certainly ensuring innovation in the industry.
Well, the lawyers are doing well, anyway.
Well, the lawyers are doing well, anyway.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the suit by Microsoft. Maybe trying to win back the money it will use to settle? Or it found patents and then said -- hey, we can sue Apple .. Hooray!
They don't put something like this together in a couple of days. Further a part of the complaint is that they're been trying to muscle Apple into licensing but Apple has been non-compliant.
Really though, who would people expect to have the deepest, most fundamental patents? Motorola invented the mobile phone, and they've been doing fairly leading stuff since, not counting the past 3 years (when they got seriously off the tracks thanks to Windows Mobile).
I doubt Motorola is shaking too hard at Microsoft's lawsuit, and I doubt they'll pay a penny to settle that. They might put out a token Windows Mobile 7 phone, or alternately cross license patents.
This should all go away, though. Nonetheless, it's good to see Apple get hit because there's this growing meme that Apple invented everything, and they're the poor victim of everyone else's theft. It's a tired, baseless bit of nonsense.
Really though, who would people expect to have the deepest, most fundamental patents? Motorola invented the mobile phone, and they've been doing fairly leading stuff since, not counting the past 3 years (when they got seriously off the tracks thanks to Windows Mobile).
I doubt Motorola is shaking too hard at Microsoft's lawsuit, and I doubt they'll pay a penny to settle that. They might put out a token Windows Mobile 7 phone, or alternately cross license patents.
This should all go away, though. Nonetheless, it's good to see Apple get hit because there's this growing meme that Apple invented everything, and they're the poor victim of everyone else's theft. It's a tired, baseless bit of nonsense.