Weeks after Motorola sued Apple for infringing a bunch of its patents, its payback time from Apple. In an expected move, Apple has countersued Motorola with two lawsuits that allege six patent infringements by Motorola related to various technologies used in the iPhone. The lawsuites have been filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin.
All patents relate to Apple’s multitouch implementation on the iPhone.
Here are the details of the infringed patents that Apple claims have been infringed upon by Motorola.
- 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“
- U.S. Patent No. 5,838,315 – “Support for custom user-interaction elements in a graphical, event-driven computer system“
The Motorola lawsuit filed against Apple alleges Apple of infringing on Motorola patented technologies related to 3G, GPRS, 802.11 wireless, and antenna design. This latest lawsuit is the last one amongst a bunch of lawsuits the mobile phone industry has seen over the course of the past few months.
Let’s see how this battle of the Titans ends up.