A federal court dismissed Apple's fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) patent licensing claims against Motorola Mobility, Inc. this morning. The case was dismissed 'with prejudice,' legalese that means Apple's claims that the court threw out cannot be raised a second time in a different lawsuit. A once sentence transcript of…
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On Monday, Apple filed an Ex parte application for discovery against Motorola Mobility ('Motorola') to defend against the Google subsidiary's patent claims in Germany. Motorola's claims allege that Apple's iPhone and iPad wireless devices infringe two of the company's European patents. One central Apple legal defense to Motorola's European patent…
Enough already! That's the message from Judge Richard Posner, the federal judge presiding over one of many patent feuds between Apple and Motorola Mobility. Dagnabbit, Apple, Judge Posner is fed up with your legal team's motion practice! "I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple," he wrote in a…
The U.S. International Trade Commission ('ITC') issued a preliminary ruling today concluding that Apple iPhone and iPad wireless devices violate Motorola Mobility's U.S. Patent No. 6,246,697. Patent holder Motorola Mobility — whose acquisition by Android OS maker Google is still pending — holds this more than 10-year-old wireless method and…
Don't the patent wars involving Apple, Samsung, and Motorola Mobility feel like they're being waged almost daily? Motorola Mobility filed the latest salvo with a new patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in a Florida federal court (see below). The new case accuses Apple of, among other things, violating its patent…