Unwired Planet, formerly called Openwave Systems, filed the lawsuits Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Nevada, asserting that Apple infringed on 10 of its patents, and that Google infringed on 10 other patents. The patents cover technologies such as push notification technologies, location-based services and digital content stores.

In a statement, Unwired Planet CEO Mike Mulica said the suits are part of a new strategy for the company to capitalize on its bank of 200 U.S. and foreign patents, as well as approximately 75 pending patent applications. In 2011, the company filed a patent-infringement complaint against Research In Motion with the International Trade Commission and at the U.S. District Court in Delaware. Also that year, Microsoft with Openwave to use its technologies.

In the complaint filed against Google, Unwired Planet charges that Google knowingly developed technologies that infringed on Openwave's patents. Google technologies such as Adwords, Google Wallet, Google search, Google Maps and the Android operating system all violate Unwired Planet's patents, the company claimed.

Apple was hit with a similar lawsuit. The Apple products allegedly infringing Unwired Planet's patents include the iPhone, iPad, iPod, the Apple App Store, the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS), iAds, and the location services used in the Safari Web browser and Apple Maps.

"Apple has induced and continues to induce its customers and/or users of the accused products and services above to infringe one or more claims of the asserted patents," the complaint reads.