I wonder if this has anything to do with the suit by Microsoft. Maybe trying to win back the money it will use to settle? Or it found patents and then said -- hey, we can sue Apple .. Hooray!
They don't put something like this together in a couple of days. Further a part of the complaint is that they're been trying to muscle Apple into licensing but Apple has been non-compliant.
Really though, who would people expect to have the deepest, most fundamental patents? Motorola invented the mobile phone, and they've been doing fairly leading stuff since, not counting the past 3 years (when they got seriously off the tracks thanks to Windows Mobile).
I doubt Motorola is shaking too hard at Microsoft's lawsuit, and I doubt they'll pay a penny to settle that. They might put out a token Windows Mobile 7 phone, or alternately cross license patents.
This should all go away, though. Nonetheless, it's good to see Apple get hit because there's this growing meme that Apple invented everything, and they're the poor victim of everyone else's theft. It's a tired, baseless bit of nonsense.
And ridiculous, at this point they should all realize it's not a win-win for anyone and create an open patent pool of some sort not like mpegla but more like an open pool of patent they can use, sue anyone who has patents in it and everyone goes after you.
