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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. Re:Poor lawyers by WarJolt · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's $500 because silicon valley snobs are willing to pay that much. I should know.... I live in the same town as Wozniak and we have an apple store.

  2. Re:get rid of multitouch already by killmofasta · · Score: 0, Troll

    MOD PARENT +1
    Comon... you know he is right!

  3. Re:get rid of multitouch already by t2t10 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If multitouch is eliminated from Android, there's very little reason for me to keep using Android.

    Don't let the door hit you in the behind on the way out.

    Multitouch adds a lot of power to the UI for those apps that can make use of that power.

    Doesn't seem to help improve all those crappy iPad and iPhone apps.

  4. Re:Er, WHAT?? by t2t10 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What about you RTFA before responding? I'm not saying that one should get rid of multi-touch capable hardware, I'm saying that one should get rid the stuff Apple is putting into their UI using it. You know, crappy features like pinch-to-zoom and two-finger-scrolling. They are unintuitive and don't work consistently.

  5. Re:No iPads are $500 because they are Apple by russotto · · Score: 1, Troll

    The responses usually are that Apple is in fact good value for money because you get this and that and the cheaper competition doesn't, etc. etc. Even Apple PR itself will say this when trolled.

    Now cue to Apple, corporate site, where they don't talk customer language but investor language. Why should I buy AAPL, according to Apple? According to Apple, because of their profit maximization. Funny, that.

    What makes you think they are contradictory? Apple can provide good value for money AND make great profits. They aren't selling commodities, identical with those of their competitors aside from price.