Pursuits
Apple-Motorola, EasyJet, BSkyB: Intellectual Property
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A Motorola Inc. unit sued computer manufacturer Apple Inc. asking a court to rule it doesn’t infringe 12 Apple patents for mobile telephone technology, and that the patents aren’t valid. The patent action is the latest in a series of lawsuits involving the two companies. The unit of Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola Inc. filed three lawsuits and a trade complaint against Cupertino, California-based Apple on Oct. 6 alleging infringement of 18 patents.
In a suit filed Oct. 8, Motorola Mobility Inc. contends in that Apple has “a history of asserting the patents-in-suit,” and that it has “a reasonable apprehension” Apple will sue Motorola over its phones with Google Inc.’s Android operating system.