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I don't think this is even worthy of being reported on. There is a high likelihood of this being thrown out in summary judgement. You can't claim something without at least some facts that indicates that Apple was going to build a search engine and the payments made by Google made Apple stop development. My guess is this is more of a PR stunt than a real lawsuit.

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Lawyer clarification incoming:

Summary judgment motions come after the discovery process (the expensive process that often leads to tech companies' dirty little secrets reaching the light of day). If the dollar figure is right, the companies would probably try to settle before summary judgment.

A motion to dismiss, on the other hand, is a pre-discovery mechanism to dismiss claims. These are relatively cheap (by large company standards). I think there's a decent chance this case gets bounced on an MTD.

If it gets past the MTD and into discovery, there's probably an early settlement where the lawyers get paid off.

Oops, mixed up my terms. Thanks for the clarification.

I agree that these headlines are worthless if no evidence is presented in the article.

Having said that - they have not yet presented evidence in court, so they may indeed have evidence.

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