Motorola Mobility Ratchets Up Patent Attack on Apple

Motorola Mobility has sued Apple again for patent infringement. This time it’s changed tack and left its standards-essential patents home. It’s using seven feature patents instead in an attempt to get the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Macs barred from being imported into the US by the International Trade Commission. The Google subsidiary claims Siri and Apple functionality such as location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players tread on its IP. A statement from Motorola Mobility made clear the motives FOSS Patents has always imputed to it. It wants to cut a financially painless cross-patent license or a mutual covenant not to sue. “We would like to settle these patent matters,” it said, “but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations.”

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