Motorola on Tuesday filed a novel lawsuit in Florida charging Apple with infringing six patent in the iPhone 4S and four of those patents in iCloud .
The cause diagnose the same six patents that Motorola cited in its complaint against Apple filed in 2010 in the same courtroom . Motorola taste to add the iPhone 4S and iCloud to the list of Apple products in the original suit but the justice rule that it was too tardy to do so .
The unexampled causa is illustrious amid the extended battle between Motorola and Apple because it must have been sanctioned by Google , remark Florian Mueller , who has been nearly following fluid patent lawsuits , in ablog post . Mueller is a letters patent expert who is sometimes pay by companies include Microsoft for his work .
The merger concord between Google and Motorola stipulates that Motorola not assert any new intellectual property natural action without an agreement in writing by Google . That means Google must have expressly authorized Motorola to pursue this new case , file in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida .
Many experts conceive that Google may have agreed to purchase Motorola for the mobile phone manufacturer ’s extensive intellectual property portfolio , since Android has add up under attack in the courts by company including Microsoft and Apple .
Apple and Motorola have also taken their battle to the U.S. International Trade Commission , which lately make out an initial determination that Motorola did not conflict on three Apple patent of invention . German authority have also side with Motorola recently by issue an injunction that would preclude Apple from selling products in that country .
Motorola and Microsoft are also battling over patent of invention . The many legal disputes areweighing on Motorola , which recently blamed the cost of patent cause and increase competition for projected weak fiscal result .
