When Motorola Mobility dragged Apple Inc. into the court of law by filing a lawsuit for the infringement of a sensor based patent back in August, many thought that it would represent a day for the Cupertino company to taste its own medicine. At that point in time, Apple was close to successfully pursuing its historic patent lawsuit case against South Korean electronics manufacturer, Samsung that later gave the California based firm over $1 billion in damages.
However, to the surprise of many, Apple came out victorious smelling like roses from Motorola Mobility case as well, as Thomas Pender, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge ruled the case in the iPhone maker’s favour. Judge Pender gave this verdict because according to him the patent from Motorola was invalid, as the iPhone did not violated any copyright that covers proximity sensor technology.
On the flip side, Motorola was not pleased with this decision, but the American telecom company will still have the option to go to the ITC’s commission that has the power to review this verdict from Judge Pender. For the time being the multinational firm is gauging its options and has released the following statement:
As Motorola Mobility spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said, “We’re disappointed with this outcome and are evaluating our options.”
This was a collective lawsuit by Motorola, as the company claimed that Apple has infringed seven patents with its products, which includes iPad, iPod, iPhone and even Macs. The move did not work for this Motorola that is now a part of search engine giant Google, which had acquired it in the last year for $12.5 billion in an exclusive rights defense move based around a 17,000 patent strong portfolio.
Source: 9to5Mac
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