letters patent licensing companionship Intellectual Ventures has set its sights on Motorola with a new lawsuit charging the handset maker with infringe six patents .
The patents cover a wide-cut range of technologies connect to text electronic messaging , moorage stations and labor software system out to devices .
Intellectual Ventures , which owns 35,000 patents , said it approached Motorola in January about licensing patents , including several named in the case , accord to the lawsuit . Motorola refused to license the patents , Intellectual Ventures tell .
Motorola , which is the theme of several other patent lawsuits , pass up to comment on the dispute .
The suit advert a number of Motorola products as infringing , include the Atrix , Photon 4 G , Milestone , Triumph and Brute i680 .
Though Intellectual Ventures say it first approached Motorola in January , record at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that all but one of the patent of invention were transferred to the company in July and September .
It ’s up to patent holder to file away document read transference of ownership with the patent power , so the discrepancy of timing credibly entail only that the troupe was slow in doing its paperwork , said David Mixon , a patent attorney with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP .
While patent causa have become commonplace in the mobile industry , this one has a unique tress . Google , which recently declare design to acquire Motorola , is an investor in Intellectual Ventures , patent of invention expert Florian Muellernoted in a web log post Thursday .
That does n’t make Google fully responsible for the courtship against Motorola . Intellectual Ventures operate like a chemical group of companies , and Google did not place in the sleeve that filed the lawsuit , Mueller indite . However , Google ’s investment funds lent legitimacy to a society whose lawsuit now targets Android , a Google creation . Mueller conclude that , as an investor , “ Google played a key role in turning IV into what it is and it should never give money to … any company setting up patent funds without taking care of the Android ecosystem at big . ”
