Motorola Mobility demanded access to Apple's entire patentportfolio in order to gain access to its own patents required topractice industry standards, such as connecting to 3G mobilenetworks. Motorola's demands were revealed in documentation by the EuropeanCommission, which noted that in late 2011, patent licensingnegotiations between the two companies "envisaged a cross-licencepossibly to the benefit of all Android OEMs but also with mutualcarve-outs." The discussions, described by Florian Mueller of FOSSPatents , appeared to be based on a request by a German court to at leastattempt to reach a settlement. Mueller described one settlement negotiation between the twocompanies where "Apple didn't even send any corporate officer," and"no Apple official sat besides its outside counsel," suggestingthat the company had no serious interest in negotiating withMotorola under the terms it demanded. The discussions noted by the EC were made in relation to itscautious approval of Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Thenegotiators "realized that the deal would have to be palatable toGoogle, which didn't (and still doesn't) own MMI in formal termsbut is likely to own it soon and has to consent to any settlementbefore MMI can enter into it," Mueller noted. All the tea A footnote in the EC document added that "according to Apple,Motorola Mobility has insisted that Apple cross-licenses its fullnon-SEP [standards essential patent] portfolio in exchange forMotorola Mobility's SEPs. "Apple also argues that its refusal to accede to this demand ledMotorola Mobility to sue Apple in an attempt to exclude Apple'sproducts from the market. On the terms of Apple's own argument,Motorola Mobility's allegedly anti-competitive behaviour in thisregard well precedes the [Google] merger at issue in the presentdecision. See, for instance, the e-mail of 2 February 2012 fromApple to the Commission." While Motorola has indicated that Apple simply refused to properlylicense its patents, and has won German sales injunctions againstcertain iOS devices (which have been suspended, allowing productsto return to the shelf) and against Apple's iCloud messagingservices (which are still in effect, and which Motorola is tryingto expand into the US), Apple has appealed the rulings. Apple stated it appealed "because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent toApple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industrystandard patent seven years ago." Discriminatory licensing to block iPhone sales In December, Apple filed a new complaint against Motorola, detailing that the company has attempted torevoke its patent license with Qualcomm (which produces thebaseband chips that allow iPhone and iPad models to connect towireless networks) and demand new licensing terms from Apple. "Motorola. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Coffee Bag Packaging , China Biodegradable Bags, and more. For more , please visit OPP Packaging Bags today!
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