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From: Bill Wolf	2/10/2012 4:55:36 PM
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Cellphones, Tablet PCs Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without lawyers By Terrence O'Brien posted Feb 10th 2012 4:11PM There are literally no words (at least no family-friendly ones) to describe the insanity that is the ongoing legal war between practically every player in the mobile scene. You can't lay the blame entirely at Cupertino's stoop either -- Motorola, HTC and Samsung all deserve plenty of our ire as well. The tablet and smartphone industry appears to be trying to sue itself out of existence, and Apple's filing today against Motorola Mobility in the US District Court of Southern California is just latest in a long line of legal ploys likely to inspire you to slam your head against a wall. The purveyors of all things i has accused Moto of breaching a licensing contract with Qualcomm by hitting Apple with four patent claims in Germany. In fact, the suit filed in San Diego seeks to prevent Motorola from enforcing its claims in Germany. So, Apple wants an American court to essentially strike down a ruling in a foreign country because a contract was breached that it is not a party in. Confused? We won't lie, we are a little bit too. Check out the source link for a complete copy of the lawsuit. engadget.com

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From: mindy1968	2/10/2012 5:16:50 PM
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Apple Sues Motorola In San Diego To Stop German Patent Case docstoc.com Where will this all end? Both Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL) and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG) are sitting on billions in cash and seem intent on blowing a good part of it on lawyers. In the latest installment, Apple today sued Motorola ( NYSE: MMI) Mobility in an attempt to force the Google subsidiary to stop using its patents against Apple in Germany. Or more simply, Apple filed an American lawsuit to stop a German lawsuit. Got that? SEE ALSO: Keep It Fair: Apple, Google Address Concerns Over Mobile Patent Licensing This latest ripple in the smartphone sagas grows out of Motorola/Google’s decision to sue Apple over one of its German FRAND patents. For the uninitiated, FRAND (Fair Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) rules are used when a group of companies decide to create an industry-wide standard. To prevent one company in the industry group using a patent to extort the others, all the companies will agree that any patents related to the standard must be shared at a fair price. In the Apple case, the FRAND patent at issue relates which to a broadband processor made by Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM) that Apple uses in the iPhone 4S and other devices. Motorola claimed the Qualcomm chip infringes one its patents and briefly obtained an order to stop Apple from using the chips. That order was suspended and today it appears to have been overturned. In the action filed today in San Diego, Apple seeks a declaration forbidding Motorola from suing over the Qualcomm patent in Germany. The company also wants to declare that Qualcomm has a license to the Motorola patent in question and that Motorola breached a contract when it sued Apple. Here’s the complaint: Apple Motorola_ San Diego _Germany_ Related Stories Keep It Fair: Apple, Google Address Concerns Over Mobile Patent Licensing Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted The Android Pile-Up On Apple In Europe: Motorola Gets Injunction In Germany Is Patent Expert/Blogger Florian Mueller Getting Too Cozy With Microsoft? By Jeff Roberts @jeffjohnroberts Feb 10, 2012 5:00 PM ET Photo: AP Images 0 inShare Posted In: Legal, Patents, Mobile, Companies, Apple, Motorola, frand, germany

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To: slacker711 who wrote (109460)	2/10/2012 6:50:58 PM
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The wireless guys actualy are far advanced over most industries in terms of FRand undertandings. Mostly due to Qualcomm just setting a number and holding to it. This is good for 3G and wireless.....but so much of the lawsuits coming out now on smartphones and tablets is NOT wireless based. The industry would be well served if they did just go to a fixed Frand position, but the diversity of the patents and the fields covered makes the reality of this almost prohibitive. I mean how many touch screen patents and icon patents are there to be included? And the graphics, useage, web, look and feel, tiny little mechanicl widgets, software widgets, etc......to be included into what body to regulate and decide this? The issue is that we have created more value from suing and copying than we have from innovating, so we will be in this for quite some time (17 years)....when the patents run out.

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To: The_Net who wrote (109480)	2/10/2012 7:00:21 PM
From: BoonDoggler	of 117893

I believe Window 8 will be a real game changer in the mobile landscape initially with the tablet Market. AAPL dominance of the tablet market will be greatly affected. Not sure I agree. I'm definitely in wait and see mode. Now we see that the only the only 'legacy' code that will run on these W8 tablets is a new tablet version of Office, iPad has plenty of apps that can work with files of type .doc, .docx, .xls, .xslx, etc. So now it's just a new competing tablet and eco system. Maybe some perceived advantage by corporate Microsoft wonks, but I'm just not sure it will make a dent against Apple.

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To: JeffreyHF who wrote (109492)	2/10/2012 8:38:59 PM
From: genedabber	5 Recommendations of 117893

IMO, you are absolutely correct! I think it has been apparent, since Sanjay was lobbying for the CEO position at QCOM, that he thought the position should be his. Realizing that it would not be good for the Company for him to report to Paul, they proceeded to assist Sanjay to get the Motorola position. Contrary to expressions of several on this Board, he did not elect to use the QCOM chips he had been responsible for developing (Snapdragon) in any of the new Motorola phones. On the contrary, QCOM has greatly improved their customer base under the new management! (Which I think just adds to his being "jealous" and seeking to avoid QCOM.)

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