Apple counter-sues Motorola over multi-touch iPhone Patents
Apple has decided to counter-sue Motorola. The lawsuits, filed in an US district court, take aim at mobile devices such as the Droid 2, Motorola’s OS, user interface and installed application software.
According to reports, Chief among the patents infringed is Apple’s Multi-Touch technology. The move is a response to a Motorola lawsuit filed against Apple earlier in October, claiming infringement of 18 patents and calling for a ban on imports and sales of the units in the US.
The six patents include the followings: U.S. Patent No. 7,812,828 Elipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces, U.S. Patent No. 7,663,607 Multipoint touchscreen, U.S. Patent No. 5,379,430 Object-oriented system locator system, U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics, U.S. Patent No. 6,493,002 Method and apparatus for displaying and accessing control and status information in a computer system and U.S. Patent No. 5,838,315 Support for custom user-interaction elements in a graphical, event-driven computer system.
The suit targets Motorola’s popular Android handsets, the Verizon Droid 2 and Droid X, the Backflip, Charm, Cliq, Cliq XT, Devour and the i1. Apple is asking for an unspecified amount of damages and a permanent injunction which would prevent Motorola from selling these devices.
As per the reports, Motorola vowed to defend itself vigorously, and to stick with its legal action against Apple.
Motorola releases Android Cliq with T-Mobile
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Motorola released its first Android mobile phone, The Cliq, which would be launched with T-Mobile USA later this autumn. This the first handset to feature Motoblur, the handset maker’s interface for threading communications on the phone.
Updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos and other features are synced from sources like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail as well as work and personal e-mail. Motoblur delivers these updates to the home screen automatically so that there is no need to open and close different mobile applications. The Cliq is a 3G handset and has a slide-out qwerty keyboard and a 3.1-inch touch display. It also includes Wi-Fi, a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, music player with access to Amazon MP3 shop, Shazam, iMeem Mobile and support for up to 32GB memory. The phone will be available in titanium and white. The price details are said to be released closer to the launch date. Outside US, the handset would be sold under the name Motorola Dext. The first carriers for the Dext would be Orange in UK and France, Telefonica in Spain and America Movil in Latin America.
