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Apple Counter-Sues Motorola Over Touchscreen Patents

Posted by Soulskill on from the round-and-round-we-go dept.

Earlier this month, we discussed news that Motorola had sued Apple, alleging infringement of 18 patents involving the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices. In response, Apple has now launched a pair of lawsuits alleging that Motorola is the infringing party, pointing to a number of patents involving touchscreen displays and multi-touch technology, and also methods for interacting with settings and data on a device. Apple wants the court to award them damages and prevent Motorola from continuing to sell the offending devices, which include the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, BackFlip, Devour i1, Devour A555, Cliq, and Cliq XT.

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  1. Begun, the clone war has by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

    (n/t)

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    1. Re:Begun, the clone war has by tekgoblin · · Score: 2, Funny

      It was inevitable, everyone will sue everyone.

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    2. Re:Begun, the clone war has by rtfa-troll · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's a lie, TekGoblin, if that's your real name. You are hereby summonsed to appear in a lawsuit before Judge T. John Ward. To be sued for your infringement of our patents on "a method and apparatus for limited truth delivery through use of over-extensive categories".

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    3. Re:Begun, the clone war has by JustOK · · Score: 2, Funny

      peace has been patented.

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    4. Re:Begun, the clone war has by aliquis · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now you're just proving his point so you'll lose that one :D

  2. Got it! by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Do something. Or perhaps nothing.
    2. Sue!
    3. Profit!!! [1]

    [1] Profit only available to lawyers and other assorted douchebags.

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  3. Oooh! by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will this add a Hamilton cycle to the who-sues-whom graph of smartphone makers?

  4. Re:And The Dining Patent Philosophers Starve!! by alexhs · · Score: 2, Funny

    all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.

    Well, that's a problem in closed-source land. In FOSS land, forks appear spontaneously !

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  5. Re:And The Dining Patent Philosophers Starve!! by t2t10 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but things work out once a bunch of them use the fork they have to stab their neighbors and steal their forks.

  6. Re:And The Dining Patent Philosophers Starve!! by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    If each fork represents a patent, all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.

    Er.... yeah.

    Unfortunately, you're likely to get sued because BadAnalogyGuy owns the patent on making very bad analogies on Slashdot. :-)

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  7. Re:And The Dining Patent Philosophers Starve!! by Software+Geek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately, you're likely to get sued because BadAnalogyGuy owns the patent on making very bad analogies on Slashdot. :-)

    Hey! Your not allowed to just add "on Slashdot" to some widely used technique and then patent it!

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  8. Re:And The Dining Patent Philosophers Starve!! by russotto · · Score: 4, Funny

    If each fork represents a patent, all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.

    Fortunately they've learned they can stab each other with the forks, which doesn't make a smartphone but does provide entertainment value.