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A Jury Has Ruled in Favor of Microsoft in a Patent Dispute with Motorola Mobility
Sep 6, 2013A jury in Seattle, Washington, has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent dispute with Motorola Mobility over standards patents, according to court records. The jury was to decide Wednesday whether Motorola, now a part of Google, ...
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Microsoft Has Won a Second Trial Against Google-Owned Motorola Mobility
Sep 6, 2013Microsoft has won a second trial against Google-owned Motorola Mobility after the firm failed to license its patents at a reasonable rate. The court battle was the second of two trials in a Seattle federal court and has resulted in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Samsung Electronics Claims That Ericsson Demanded Billions More for Patent Licenses
Aug 27, 2013Samsung Electronics claims that Ericsson demanded billions more for patent licenses after their license agreement expired in 2007. The company made its claim in a document filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on ...
Tags: Samsung, Ericsson, Patent Licenses, Computer Products
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Google Acquired Motorola Last Year for US$12.5 Billion,in Part for Its Patent Portfolio
May 28, 2013The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC's ruling Thursday has ...
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Motorola Abuses Its Dominant Position in The E.U. by Enforcing an Injunction Against Apple
May 8, 2013Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary ...
Tags: Motorola
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Ericsson Has Sued Indian Mobile Handset Vendor Micromax in an Indian Court
Mar 28, 2013Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by Micromax to Ericsson ...
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Ericsson Has Sued Indian Mobile Handset Vendor Micromax in an Indian Court
Mar 26, 2013Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consideration. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by ...
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An Administrative Law Judge Has Ruled Against a Ban on Microsoft's Xbox
Mar 25, 2013An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox, Google Patent
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Patent Trial in Australia Becomes So Complex That a Second Judge Is Assigned to The Case
Feb 27, 2013The patent trial in Australia between Apple and Samsung Electronics has become so complex that a second judge has been assigned to the case. It's the first time in Australian federal court history that two judges will hear a case at the ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung Electronics, patent trial
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Judge Has Ruled That 13 Motorola Mobility Patent Claims Related to Digital Are Invalid
Feb 17, 2013A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility patent, digital video, licensing case
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USITC Has Voted to Investigate Whether Ericsson Has Infringed Samsung Electronics Patents
Jan 29, 2013The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate whether Ericsson has infringed Samsung Electronics patents related to wireless communication equipment, the agency said Friday. Samsung filed the so-called section 337 ...
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Motorola Mobility Has Withdrawn Its Claims with Regard to Its Standard-Essential Patents
Jan 14, 2013Motorola Mobility has withdrawn its claims with regard to its standard-essential patents in its complaint against Microsoft's Xbox before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The move comes after Microsoft told the ITC in a filing ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, patents, Microsoft, Xbox
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It Expects Motorola Mobility to Withdraw Claims Relating to Two Patents
Jan 10, 2013IDG News Service - Microsoft told the U.S. International Trade Commission that it expects Motorola Mobility to withdraw claims relating to two patents it says are essential to the H.264 standard in its complaint against the Xbox, in view of ...
Tags: Microsoft, Motorola Mobility, software, Xbox, Google
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Google Pledged to Not Seek Injunctions in Most Patent Disputes
Jan 8, 2013IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information
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Google Has Agreed to Change Some of Its Business Practices
Jan 7, 2013Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
Tags: Google, US FTC, antitrust case
