“Apple Inc will try to salvage a high-profile lawsuit against Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit on Wednesday at a crucial hearing in the smartphone patent wars between the two tech companies,” Dan Levine reports for Reuters.
“Federal Judge Richard Posner in Chicago will hear Apple argue why it should be able to seek an order barring the sale of some Motorola phones,” Levine reports. “Motorola sued Apple in October 2010, a move widely seen as a preemptive strike. Apple filed its own claims against Motorola the same month.”
Levine reports, “A clear victory in one of the U.S. legal cases could strengthen Apple’s hand in negotiating cross-licensing deals, where companies agree to let each other use their patented technologies. Apple and Samsung are scheduled for trial July 30 in federal court in San Jose, California.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Based on the two quotes below, it’s tough to imagine any forthcoming cross-licensing deals:
I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want. – Steve Jobs to Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt, at a Palo Alto, California cafe, March 26, 2010
I’ve always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it. We just want people to invent their own stuff. And so if we could get to some kind of arrangement where we could be assured that’s the case and a fair settlement on the stuff that’s occurred, I would highly prefer to settle versus battle. But it — the key thing is that it’s very important that Apple not become the developer for the world. We need people to invent their own stuff. – Apple CEO Tim Cook, April 24, 2012
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
The rivalry between Apple and Google will never end.
Sure it will.
The same way that the rivalry between UPS and Railway Express ended.
WTF…when you follow the link, the headline says ‘Judge to Probe Apple’ but the article is just a mishmash of old memes confused with actual facts. Terrible writing.
Just how is this judge going to “probe” Apple? No wonder they wear robes.