By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on May 7th, 2013% 
The European Union anti-trust officials backed the Cupertino, California-based company, Apple Inc. against a patent case filed by Google’s Motorola. The EU officials said that Motorola is abusing their position, being the market leader in Germany for smartphones. Motorola filed a patent infringement case against Apple for some mobile phone functions.
The EU have already came with a preliminary view after the investigation opened on April, last year. According to them, these actions of Google’s Motorola “amounts to an abuse of a dominant position prohibited by EU anti-trust rules.”
Joaquin Almunia, the EU Competition Commisioner, said in a statement that . . . → Read More: EU Backs Apple in Patent Infringement Case Against Motorola
By Jharma Mulchandani, on May 16th, 2012% 
Shipments of HTC’s Evo 4G LTE and HTC One X were delayed by the International Trade Commission for investations, some shipments were held back. The units were the first devices to face delay by the customs to investation about the patent infringement case filed by Apple.
Apple won several exclusion order to stop the shipments of HTC Android devices at the ITC on December 2011. The commission discovered that Android’s browser and messaging application infringed the patent #5946647 by Apple – this patent covers the convertion of email addresses and phone numbers into links that opens up to . . . → Read More: ITC Orders Customs to Delay Shipments of HTC Phones
By Imee Celine Lenoir, on April 24th, 2012% 
Mobile phone maker, Motorola, won the ITC (International Trade Commission) judge’s ruling which increases the possibilities of preventing the imports of Microsoft Corp’s gaming console Xbox from the U.S.
Judge David Shaw of the ITC stated yesterday that four out of five Motorola Mobility pantents have been violated by Microsoft. The judge’s ruling are still subject for review by the panel of ITC, which has the capability to prohibit imports that infringe U.S. patents. Another judge at the ITC postponed until today giving his conclusions in a separate Motorola Mobility suit in opposition to Apple Inc.
. . . → Read More: Motorola Wins Over Microsoft Xbox Patents
By Jharma Mulchandani, on January 16th, 2012% 
Apple Inc. has encountered a loss in its patent lawsuit in opposition to Motorola. An administrative law judge (ALJ) together with the ITC or International Trade Commission released a first judgment late on Friday, stating that Motorola didn’t infringe three of Apple’s mobile phone patents. The judgement signs possible difficulties for Apple, although it still has to face the acceptance from the ITC panel.
Motorola and Apple are already involved in rounds of cases both in the ITC and with the Federal court since 2010, when Motorola first charged Apple of breaking an array of its patents covering . . . → Read More: Motorola Wins First Ruling Against Apple
By Jharma Mulchandani, on June 14th, 2011% 
Nokia has decided to resolve all copyright litigation with Apple Inc. in an agreement that will increase its newly-revised second-quarter viewpoint, Finnish phone creator Nokia Corp. said. The companies have signed a license contract which answers in settlement of all patent litigation among the companies, containing the withdrawal by both companies of their grievances to the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Exact financial aspects were not revealed however Apple will create a one-off payment to Nokia and paying continuing royalties for the term of the contract.
Nokia previous month advised that its second-quarter operating margin at . . . → Read More: Patent Litigation Deal Between Nokia and Apple
By Jharma Mulchandani, on November 1st, 2010% 
Earlier this month, Apple has reacted to a proceedings brought against it by Motorola with its individual copyright contravention lawsuits.
The Cupertino-based iPhone-manufacturer prosecuted Motorola charging the company’s smartphone arrangement and the operating system utilized by its handsets infringe the company’s logical possessions. Apple filed the two court cases in the U.S. region courtyard in Wisconsin.
Motorola filed an accusation with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) maintaining that Apple’s “i” plans break on their copyrights, in addition to several Mac computers in its line-up. The three grievances consist of 18 patents, all of . . . → Read More: Apple Accuses Motorola of Being a Copycat
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