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ITC rules Apple infringed on a Motorola patent
A judge from the International Trade Commission today ruled in favor of Motorola in its patent infringement case against Apple. The ITC decided that Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices infringe U.S. patent no. 6,246,697. The legalities of patent cases are extremely confusing, but what we’ve all come to realize is these kind of decisions are always subject to review by a full panel of ITC judges.
In this case, patent ’697 covers a method of generating a pseudonoise sequence in a wireless communication system, and was one of four patents originally asserted against Apple in this ITC matter. Of course, Apple from day one has disagreed with Motorola’s accusations, saying that the patents in question covers standards-essential wireless technology that Motorola has refused to license under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. Ultimately, the ITC won’t be able to settle this, instead, it’s likely the issue will be
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EU to investigate Motorola for unfairly leveraging patents against Apple, Microsoft
The European Union’s antitrust Commission has opened up two new investigations that will explore whether Motorola Mobility is unfairly licensing some of its patents, the organization announced today.
The investigations follows complaints from two of the biggest technology companies in the world. Back in February, Apple filed an official complaint against Motorola Mobility for violating agreements to fairly license standards-essential patents. Specifically, Apple focused on the 17,000 patents Google will get its hands on when its purchase of Motorola Mobility is complete. Weeks later, Microsoft filed an official complaint with the EU against Motorola, focusing on its patents related to web videos.
All the Motorola Mobility patents in question are to be licensed on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The FRAND classification means the owner of that particular patent must license it to other companies for a fee because the technology is considered essential to an industry.
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Google, Motorola to hand over Android information to Apple
As the legal battles continue, Google and Motorola Mobility have been ordered U.S. judge to hand over information about the development of its Android operating system to Apple. MMI and the Cupertino-based tech giant have been going back and forth suing each other over infringing ones patents, which led to small victories for Apple in Motorola’s FRAND patent, and a win for Moto; making Apple disable iCloud push notifications in Germany.
Of course, to no ones surprise, the Illinois-based manufacturer has opposed Apple’s ask for the information, saying that Google shouldn’t be apart of the lawsuit. In a court filing on Monday, Motorola’s lawyers stated that “Google’s employees and documents are not within the ‘possession, custody, or control’ of Motorola, and Motorola cannot force Google to produce documents of witnesses over Google’s objections.”
All court proceedings going forward will be scheduled as back-to-back trials before two separate juries, beginning on June 11, 2012
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What is FRAND, and Why Do We Care?
Smartphone users take common features for granted on their devices, like 3G connectivity, slide-to-unlock and e-mail notifications. But these features are at the heart of squabbles between companies over the rights and use of these now-standard capabilities, especially as handsets become progressively powerful and the role of software on phones emerges as a key point of competition.
Patents are increasingly important for smartphone makers, and companies are growing more protective of their software innovations. Nearly all major tech companies are engaged in patent litigation against one another, looking to hobble competition before products even hit the marketplace through sales injunctions, product bans or lucrative licensing agreements.
The focus of these patent legal cases, however, is beginning to shift from allegations of outright
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Microsoft: Motorola, Google trying to kill web videos
Microsoft has filed a formal competition complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility and Google because it says the companies are trying to use its patents to kill video as we know it on smartphones, tablets and on any web-connected device.
In a blog post, Microsoft claims that Motorola and its soon-to-be owner Google are using patents it has in web video to demand unreasonable royalty fees.
Motorola is trying to block sales of some Microsoft products due to some patents regarding web videos. Certain patents in various areas have been committed to agreed-upon standards which have to be licensed via “fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms” (FRAND). This came about because standards bodies and the European Commission determined that some technologies are just too essential for innovation and growth to be mired in lawsuits and large patent fees.
Microsoft says that Google and Motorola are
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