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Sunday 18 November 2012
Google Gaint out look
Apple is also interested in resolving its dispute with Motorola
completely and agrees that arbitration may be the best vehicle to resolve the
parties’ dispute,” Apple said in the filing.
Motorola Mobility first raised the issue of arbitration on Nov. 5, before
a federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, threw out a breach-of-contract case that
Apple had filed. The Cupertino, California-based maker of the iPhone claimed
its mobile-phone competitor was misusing standard-essential patents to demand
unreasonable royalties.
“We have long sought a path to resolving patent issues and we welcome the
chance to build on the constructive dialogue between our companies,” Google
General Counsel Kent Walker said in a Nov. 13 letter to Apple that was filed
with the court. “While we prefer to seek a framework for a global (rather than
piecemeal) resolution that addresses all of our patent disputes, we are
committed to reaching agreement on a license for our respective
standard-essential patents.”
Globe-Spanning
Litigation
An agreement that goes beyond the Motorola Mobility dispute to cover
other devices that run on Google’s Android operating system could help calm
litigation that has spanned the globe, said Alex Spektor, an analyst with
Strategy Analytics in Boston.
“It’s in everyone’s best interest in the industry to pull back and reach
some sort of equilibrium,” Spektor said. “Google could offer a certain level of
protection to licensees who comply with whatever standard it puts in place.”
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission are both
investigating complaints by Microsoft Corp. and Apple that Motorola Mobility is
misusing its standard- essential patents. The FTC staff has recommended filing
a lawsuit against Google, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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