Motorola Mobility sues Apple

Posted Oct 6, 2010 22:46 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Motorola Mobility sues Apple

Surely all of these patent suits must be the sign of progress ;-)

Progress

Posted Oct 7, 2010 2:08 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (5 responses)

helpful diagram: Whos Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade? at Information is Beautiful.

Progress

Posted Oct 7, 2010 2:15 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Hilarious! Looks a lot like a scenario from a nuclear war - missiles flying left right and centre.

Progress

Posted Oct 7, 2010 10:05 UTC (Thu) by fb (guest, #53265) [Link] (3 responses)

Another graph representation of it at Ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/motorola-asks-i...

Progress

Posted Oct 7, 2010 17:01 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (2 responses)

Holy cow is Nokia litigious. I had no idea! Great graph.

These are not just IP issues though

Posted Oct 7, 2010 18:47 UTC (Thu) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link] (1 responses)

To be fair to Nokia, three of those "arrows" seem to be about the LCD price fixing that the major LCD manufacturers have already admitted to various regulators... I think lumping that sort of thing in the graph is not useful -- at least the graph no longer paints a picture of the 'Mutually Assured IP Destruction" that some other posters referred to.

These are not just IP issues though

Posted Oct 14, 2010 8:27 UTC (Thu) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]

The LCD pricefixing lawsuit is actually 5 arrows of that chart - Hitachi, LG, Samsung, Sharp, and Toshiba. That leaves three lawsuits from nokia.

qualcomm <-> nokia cdma patent case
nokia <-> apple spat over ui and gsm
nokia <-> motorola not sure about this one, i guess an old case?