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Motorola sues Aruba for patent infringement on 3D and wireless technology

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 5:48 PM

Motorola logo subsidiaries Symbol and Wireless valley sue ArubaWhat better way to inject some much needed coin into the company coffers than to go out and take other people’s money? It looks like Motorola is going to join in on the fun that Broadcom and Nokia are having with their IP legal battles. The embattled mobile phone once-giant is claiming that their recent acquisition of Symbol also gave them the rights to some technology related to 3D representations and short-range wireless networking and management.

Motorola isn’t actually the one suing Aruba, rather, Motorola’s subsidiaries Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications have filed for a monetary damages and a permanent injunction against Aruba (a supplier of wireless networking equipment for offices).

Now, we’re usually against “use the courts to handle your licensing negotiation” tactics, but seeing as how this law suit doesn’t really stem from licensing negotiations and the fact that poor, old Motorola could really use some help these days, we’re going to root for Moto on this one. Just this one time Moto (wait, didn’t we say that before?).

[Via: Yahoo]

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