More info on Apple's Lawsuit Files against Motorola to Defend Multi-Touch

The inevitable: When Motorola preemptively launched their declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, we knew that Apple was likely to launch multiple patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola once their licensing negotiations failed to produce an agreement. Late yesterday, Apple filed a pair of patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola Inc. and Motorola Mobility Inc. in the Wisconsin Western District Court. The combined lawsuits cover six patents – none of which were covered by Motorola Mobility Inc.’s filed lawsuits. The main focus of these lawsuits centers in on the most important technology of all pertaining to the next generation smartphones: Multi-Touch. In 2009, Apple’s COO Tim Cook warned the competition during a financial conference, as follows: “we like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does.” Obviously Apple now thinks that Motorola has crossed that line.

 

The Accused Products

According to court documents, Apple states that the Accused Products are mobile devices, such as smartphones, and associated software, including operating systems, user interfaces, and other application software designed for use on, and loaded onto, such devices.

Upon information and belief, these products are manufactured, marketed and/or sold by Motorola in the United States. At least the following mobile devices infringe one or more claims of one or more of the Asserted Patents: Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm.1

An Overview of All the Patents listed in the Two Lawsuits

The following information pertains to six granted patents listed in Apple’s two distinct lawsuits.

Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents

What, you didn’t think Apple was just going to sit around and take it after Motorola first sued for patent infringement and then asked to court to declare some 20 of Cupertino’s patents weren’t applicable to its products, did you? Apple’s fired back with two lawsuits claiming that Motorola’s Android phones, including but not limited to the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm, infringe a total of six multitouch and OS patents. That would be pretty much par for the course — you sue me, I sue you — but there are a couple interesting strategic wrinkles to note:

Verizon Wireless To Offer The BlackBerry Bold 9650 With OS 6.0 Pre-Installed?

We’ve heard more than a few rumors that Verizon Wireless might soon release BlackBerry 6 for a few of their devices. According to a leaked Verizon rebate form, the Bold 9650 might be the first to get it. The rebate form shows two new SKUs for the Bold 9650 meaning it might get re-released with OS 6.0 pre-installed. The reason for the two SKUs could be that Verizon offers the Bold 9650 with or without a camera.

It’s taking RIM and carriers a while to push out the new OS but hopefully we’ll see an official release sooner than later.

via Engadget

Check Out Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 7 Commercial As it Pokes Fun At BlackBerry Users

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You can tell how popular you truly are when your competition takes potshots at you. Microsoft will soon be launching a new line of smartphones running their latest mobile OS Windows Phone 7. As part of their “ The phone that saves us from our phone ” campaign, Microsoft has decided to poke fun at how obsessed some BlackBerry users can be.

Telus confirms the Blackberry Bold 9780 will be coming SOON

It’s pretty interesting to see changes in the mobile space. Just two years ago we would never have seen a carrier announce a device launch as soon as they are now, and now they do it live. Just a few months ago carriers started tweeting that they were launching a device, not always with dates but a confirmation none the less. Today Telus has announced on their twitter account that they intend to carry the new BlackBerry Bold 9780, with no date in sight it’s had to get an idea other than soon. Keep an eye out for the new BlackBerry Bold 9780 from Telus.

Video: How to switch BlackBerry devices



Browsing via BlackBerry? Click here to view video

We’ve put up our step by step guide on how to switch BlackBerry devices here on our site but here’s another great tutorial giving you the same with a video.  A lot of people keep switching devices and reading peoples BBM pins again which means something has been done wrong.  In this video by RIM you’ll see a quick and easy step by step guide on how to switch BlackBerry devices.

BlackBerry NHCBBA-UG (user guide) for the BlackBerry Bold 9780 now available for viewing

Research in Motion continues to gear up for the launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9780. A couple of days ago, the BlackBerry manufacturer released its demo of the soon-to-be-available Bold 9780.
The 9780 will be the first Bold to sport OS6 right out of the box. Dummy units have begun to arrive in stores and the new Bold arrives at T-Mobile on November 17th.

Folks who want to get a feel for their future smartphone – or those who just want to see how OS6 will work on a Bold – should head over to the BlackBerry demos at RIM’s website. Since this is a demo and not a simulator, you won’t get to play around with the OS. But when it comes time to open up that box and start using your shiny new BlackBerry Bold 9780, you’ll be ready. Armed with the knowledge of how to set up and use your new device and raring to go.

• Click Here To View The BlackBerry 101 User Guide For The BlackBerry Bold 9780>>

Adobe posts a longer BlackBerry PlayBook preview

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Adobe has posted a longer version of its BlackBerry Playbook preview on Youtube. I am real excited about the Playbook, and this video just makes it more so for me. I can see a ton of potential for this device. How would you use it when, like me, you get your paws on one?

PlayBook BlackBerryOS Launcher

Click this bar to view the full image. When I heard the PlayBook simulator and SDK got released, I got the happy feeling inside – much like football fans do when they receive their Superbowl tickets! So, I downloaded and began working past the beta bugs (very few actually). I initially started to convert the applications that I already have developed for the BlackBerry but I got influenced to produce the BBOS Launcher. The BBOS Launcher loads the entire website and not the mobile site which many people will appreciate merely because of the fact that it’s packed full of more features than the mobile site. The BBOS Launcher also has a back, home and forward button mainly for convenience. If you’ve got any suggestions, please, feel free to leave them; I’m open for anything that anybody suggests! Ignore the BBOSMain and GoofyTimer/Goofy Timer, those are other applications I was working on that I’ll have released before the PlayBook itself gets released. Here is an up close and personal screenshot of the application running in full screen.

Pandora v1.1.5 – Now includes universal search for BlackBerry 6 devices!

Pandora has just posted their latest release for BlackBerry users. You can grab the updated version via the Pandora website right now. New features and bug fixes are all included in the change log as well as support for the upcoming BlackBerry Style 9670 release.

New Features:

• Support for BlackBerry Style 9670
• Universal Search integration (6.0 OS)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some display issues that sometimes occurred when bringing Pandora into the foreground
• Bookmark Artist was not showing the “Bookmark Added” message (even though the bookmark was actually added)
• In 6.0, the popup context menu was showing after selecting menu items with the trackpad

I haven’t had time yet to download this release so, be sure to leave some comments on how things are working for you if you grab it.

• Click Here To Download The Latest Release Of Pandora For BlackBerry>>