Motorola piles on the patent suits, now targets iPhone 4S and iCloud

Motorola's own patent war against Apple rages on, as the company has filed a new lawsuit in the US targeting Apple's iPhone 4S and iCloud service. Motorola's new lawsuit, filed in the US District Court of Southern Florida, asserts six patents against the iPhone 4S, with four of those same patents asserted against iCloud.

This suit comes several months after two other federal lawsuits filed by Motorola against Apple, rounding out the list of Apple products that Motorola is going after with its patent portfolio. The four patents Motorola is claiming against iCloud (hat tip to FOSS Patents for rounding them all up) include one for "multiple pager status synchronization," one that describes a "method and apparatus for communicating summarized data," a "system for communicating user-selected criteria filter prepared at wireless client to communication server for filtering data transferred from host to said wireless client," and a "method and apparatus in a wireless messaging system for facilitating an exchange of address information." The patents being claimed against the iPhone 4S are all of the above, plus another patent for a "receiver having concealed external antenna," and an "apparatus for controlling utilization of software added to a portable communication device." Overall, it appears that Motorola is targeting iCloud and the iPhone 4S for being able to sync data stored on the iPhone wirelessly (via concealed external antenna, that is).