“Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit said Friday it has filed a new claim with the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging that rival Apple Inc. has infringed seven of its patents,” John Letzing reports for Dow Jones.
“The patents relate to Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Motorola says,” Letzing reports. “Motorola is seeking a ban on the import of those products made overseas. ‘We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations,’ a Motorola spokeswoman said in a statement.”
Letzing reports, “None of the patents asserted by Motorola in its newest claim is a standards-essential patent.”
Read more in the full article here.
*groan*
That’s it for me – I’m officially locking Google out of my little ecosystem.
I switched my default search engine to Bing last week. It’s not so bad really–almost an exact Google clone.
I switched a couple months back and have had no regrets. I think it’s actually better than Google in some important ways, plus none of the useless Google+ references.
Next up — dump GMail. That will take a little more commitment.
thats exactly where I’m at
I switched to Bing over a year ago. Don’t miss Google in the least.
I switched to Yahoo on my computer and Bing on my phone. Not entirely the same, but Google is not perfect either.
I can’t stand that company and hope that they rot.
can switch to YAHOO instead – Bing is Microsofts
And Yahoo’s search engine is being powered by Bing. Scroll down to the bottom of a search page and check it out.
I’ve been Google-free for a while now although I will sometimes (but very rarely) use Google search if I want to be thorough about something I want to seek on the web. Ditched Gmail a long time ago. Never bothered with Google Docs and any of their other services. I really don’t need Google for anything at all. Apple’s own Maps on iOS6 will be the final cutting of the cord.
It will never end. What goes around comes around. Tiresome. Just like the politics in this country. Just one bullshit claim after another. Tech superpacs lying like the politicians. A pox on all of them, Apple included.
I’m not sure exactly why, but all this strongly reminds me of “Expendables 2″…
Explitive Deleted Gagme, Mutterola and Samedung.
As long as Apple continues to Innovate, we’ll be fine but they better stop with hiring inferior retail bosses and producing cheap looking packing (seen a MBA packaging lately, fricking plastic, cheap-looking plastic tray)
Please MDN can’t you change your ad provider?
I’m firewalling Google out of my systems after this and their hypocrisy today in not revealing their financial connections to bloggers and writers.
But I want to support this site. It doesn’t make much sense that you’re helping Google running ads for them either.
What ads?
Use AdBlocker.
Speaking of disclosure, how about all these Google adsense tags in here, plus the 24 ads on this one page. I wonder where this money trail leads. Doh!
Adsense pays a pittance, not sure why you even brought that up.
I brought it up just to pss you off and to point out an irony concerning Google and MDN. I’m sure MDN does just fine with there ad placement, news aggregation, and snarky commentary. Figure it out yourself.
OK cool thanks for your valuable input.
I have NO ads on MDN – I like it that way.
So… Google is outraged about the antiquated patent/copyright system and is horrified by law suits aimed at protecting rights. When they are directed at them. But it’s OK for them to file suits against Apple and others. That’s different, I guess.
The TRUE Google motto seems pretty clear:
Do no evil… to me. But I’ll do whatever evil I want.
Variant: What is yours is mine, and what is mine is mine.
I can remember the day when I was a Google fan and was happy to see them on the iPhone. Times change.
Cool!!
I am always amused at the so 80’s companies asserting patents against the most innovative and driving company in the industry!
Seriously!! if they were so darn smart, why didn’t they use their talented engineers and patents to make an iPhone?
Now that they are late to the party and didn’t have the vision to begin with.. they want to claim being smart and innovative !
Good Grief Charlie Brown!
To think that only apple had the vision for a rectangular touch screen phone is ridiculous…the fact that they put theirs out first doesn’t mean a damn thing
This is what Google has planned all along.
Since, they knew they couldn’t compete against Apple, they instead buy up Moto’s patent portfolio and start suing away and threatening to ban sales.
It has been reported in the past that Google/Moto are discriminating against Apple by inflating the patent licenses. Apple has argued that Google/Moto are abusing FRAND standards by not promoting the fair practices.
The axis of evil tries propaganda by saying the Apple should be allowing greater use of their patents. Well, Apple didn’t work their butts off and Steve Jobs didn’t dream big dreams for Goolge/Samsung/Motorola to take advantage of. Remember all those companies that laughed at Apple and underestimated the iPhone when it was first revealed.
A lot of big companies do nothing more than copy Apple. Rave Jobs challenged them to stop copying and innovate their own stuff. Why aren’t they? Why are they suing to continue copying?
“hi, i’m a crap company that makes crap products and has lost all vision of worthiness… now I have to sue a company that is beat the crap out of us because we can’t focus on doing anything worth a crap”… sounds like a lazy biz approach to stay afloat
Time for Apple to kick Google out of the AppStore.
So what are the patents?
Well just installed “Do Not Track Plus” on Safari and feel better already, blocks all Google crap: Adsense, Analytics, everything.
Google’s money comes 98% from advertising. Let’s hit them where it hurts.
Next I’ll start sending e-mails to companies running ads on Google telling them I don’t like them supporting Google’s hypocrisy and will be buying elsewhere.
I supported Google when they were a young company starting in web search, they were not very good even at search back then but the clean webpage – thanks for that Marissa – and almost no ads made it a nicer experience than Altavista.
Nowadays it’s the complete opposite, their search results are full of crap and they help pester the rest of the web with more crap ads for scams and fraudsters. They track us everywhere, even when we don’t want to. They have the attitude that they can pay their way out of any law – either by billions lobbying or small pointless fines.
Google is also an out of control fungus, they either buy – or most often copy – themselves into emerging tech fields and then choke off all the nutrients (ie funding) out of the ecosystem by leveraging their gargantuan ad monopoly. It’s really hard for anyone else to compete with “free” (with ads) even when the other product is really much better. That’s not healthy for business, society and certainly not good for innovation.
I think that those of us who helped create this monster should feel particularly obligated to now help destroy it.
But we need to be organised! There’s much criticism of Google out there but it’s not well aligned and not very visible. If anyone has ideas or wishes to discuss this please contact me at gkmac at ymail.com
I’ve had all the do not track stuff installed for quite a while and can only hope more people do the same.
I agree that their search return far too much profit oriented results but, to be honest, I have difficulty finding a better alternative. I’ve tried Bing, StartPage, and DuckDuckGo… As ironic as it may seem, I’m hoping Bing continues to refine itself and improve.
I also agree with you about Google stifling innovation. Their MO of giving everything away for “free” wipes out startups with brilliant ideas.
I find myself despising this company more and more with each passing day. I frustrates me whenever I hear about friends using their services. I wish you the best of luck on your endeavor.
Please Apple, get into search