RIM sues Motorola, Motorola sues RIM
We love you, RIM, but your penchant for overblown litigation is getting a bit old. Word has come out of Canada that the BlackBerry manufacturer has filed a lawsuit against Motorola. The lawsuit was filed this past Saturday in U.S. District Court in Texas. It alleges that Motorola "is demanding exorbitant royalties…for patents that Motorola claims are essential to various standards for mobile wireless telecommunications and wireless computing that RIM practices." Some of these patents relate directly to the use of Wi-Fi in handheld devices. It also accused Moto of infringing on several RIM patents, including one that provides for a device "with a keyboard optimized for use with thumbs". Right. On the Motorola side, they filed a suit claiming that "RIM infringed on seven of its patents in various BlackBerry 8000-series devices and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server." So much for that RAZRBerry, huh?
This is terrific. Fun to watching Motorola and Rim act like school girls while Apple rolls over them both with the iPhone.
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Lee, I love my iphone and all but Apple will not rule over both of these giants anytime soon.
It is fun to see them bicker though, really I can’t imagine Moto being on the losing end here. Their patents are pretty well known and are used alot, RIM just needs to pay up.
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Why don’t they sue each other for the same amount and it’ll be like this never happened!!! Yay for the morons in charge!!!
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But Motorola started it!
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Is Apple paying Motorola for the use of Wifi in it’s products? Sounds like a move of desperation.
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Capitalism sucks!! Can’t we all just get along??!!?
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well if rim comes out i would deala deavastating blow to mot the best we coup it woul make them vunerable to buyout the znderis rzrish phones are weak.
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I am just basing my comments on sales. A million iPhone in 74 days says to me that Apple is doing some thing right.
I certainly do not count the big boys out but there is no doubt the game is changing due to Apple’s influence.
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i milion pohines in 754 days ?! apples doing somthing horrably wron Nokia seles over 5 times that many units each day motoerola has terable firmware th razr 2 from tmoble hsas symbian as an OS thats a slight step up but moto has to go back to the drawing board as design goes it’s not thatdurable. but to be fair RIM’s 8300 series is verry fragle.
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The iPhone is definitely a cool toy and I like playing with it while I am visiting Apple Stores, but I have heard way too many people (including Att & Apple Store employees) say that they are sorry they spent so much money on it. A few too many querks which have been well documented…
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Hey Galvatron, how about you go find a dictionary so that we could all actually understand wtf you’re saying?
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Essentially, what Galvatron said was that Nokia rules.
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