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<title>Motorola appeals dismissal of ITC complaint against Apple</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/24/single.patent.remains.at.stake/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1206/Apple-Moto-fight-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google-owned Motorola Mobility is appealing the US International Trade Commission's dismissal of a complaint filed against Apple, according to newly-published court documents discovered by FOSS Patents.  A single patent was left in the complaint at the time of the final ruling, one involving using a proximity sensor to disable a touchscreen when a phone is held close to a person's ear.  It's no...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple cites FRAND ruling to ITC, calls Samsung behavior 'egregious'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/23/landmark.ruling.enjoins.potential.itc.sales.embargo.cites.lack.of.frand.offer/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1301/USITC-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has wasted no time filing with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding the landmark ruling from May 22 enjoining a standards essential patent holder from enforcing a potential ITC-ordered sales embargo. Apple's filing with the court summarizes Judge White's decision, and calls Samsung's conduct "even more egregious" than that of the cited case's patent holder....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Precedent-setting SEP enforcement injunction awarded in Wi-Fi dispute</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/21/ruling.expected.to.impact.may.31.apple.versus.samsung.itc.ruling/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1369171460_usitc-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A ruling yesterday in the Northern District of California may have repercussions on the smartphone patent battles raging across the US court landscape. A federal judge granted a user of a standards-essential patent a preliminary injunction against enforcement of a possible US International Trade Commission (ITC) sales injunction. This decision by Senior District Judge Ronald Whyte is the first tim...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mexican Superior Court tosses $2.75 billion damages award versus Yahoo</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/16/trial.centers.on.failure.of.yellow.pages.service/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1368747797_yahoomexico-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Superior Court of Mexico has overturned a lower court ruling that found Yahoo liable for $2.75 billion in damages. Plaintiffs Ideas Interactivas and holding company Worldwide Directories sued Yahoo over breach of contract and lost profits on a yellow pages service....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google filing in Motorola Mobile versus Apple suit seeks injunction</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/15/google.believes.ftc.consent.decree.restrictions.overstated/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1368658032_google-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A Google-made appeal filing in the Motorola Mobile versus Apple smartphone patent trial in Judge Richard A. Posner's court has been made public. Controversially, the Google-owned Motorola claims that the still-pending FTC consent decree it agreed to does not prevent it from seeking an injunction against Apple products -- claiming that in refusing a 2.25 percent fair, reasonable, and non-discrimina...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Class action lawsuit targets Apple over defective iPhone 4 buttons</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/14/says.apple.was.aware.of.issue.but.kept.quiet/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1109/iphone4-21.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A Florida woman, Debra Hilton, has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of iPhone 4 owners, says GigaOM.  The case alleges that Apple knew about a flex cable defect that was causing problems with the phone's power button, but stayed quiet to sell phones without fixing the issue.  A lawyer for Hilton points to threads on Apple's support forums, as well as a repair video on YouTube...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>USPTO rejects some claims in Apple translucency patent</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/10/could.affect.outcome.of.apple.v.samsung.battles/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1368219085_boringpatent.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary rejection of some claims in an Apple patent, Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display, says FOSS Patents.  Claims 29-30 and 33-35 have been rejected.  The USPTO says that aspects of the patent were obvious or anticipated in light of another patent, Method and apparatus for displaying simulated keyboards ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple pursues Android source code records in second US Samsung suit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/08/files.statement.opposing.google.amicus.curiae.in.first.case/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1366900015_gavel-new.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[As a part of one of its lawsuits against Samsung, Apple is asking US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal for access to Google's Android source code records, Bloomberg reports.  The documents are being demanded as part of pretrial information sharing; Apple argues in a court filing that Android is used in all of the Samsung devices accused of infringing Apple patents, and "provides much of the accused f...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Judge sets Nov. 12th date for Apple v. Samsung damages retrial</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/30/will.be.restricted.to.13.samsung.devices/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1363225576_legal-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[US District Court Judge Lucy Koh has set a November 12th date for a trial to recalculate damages vacated from last year's initial, $1.05 billion Apple v. Samsung ruling, reports say.  On March 1st, Koh issued an order vacating $450.5 million from the original judgment, owing to a questionable jury outcome which set only one damage figure per device despite multiple patents being involved in each ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft prevails; Motorola denied billions in patent licenses</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/25/ruling.more.in.line.with.microsoft.claims.well.short.of.4.billion.request/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1103/lawkeybd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[US District Court Judge James Robart of the Western District of Washington has issued a critical ruling in the Motorola Mobile versus Microsoft patent lawsuit. The judge has decreed that Motorola Mobility is entitled to nearly $1.8 million per year from Microsoft for use of its standards-essential H.264 video playback and 802.11 Wi-Fi patents, a far cry from the $4 billion annually Motorola and it...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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