Law360, New York (May 27, 2011, 6:06 PM ET) -- Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. lost their bid to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by Wireless Ink Corp. over mobile website technology when an Illinois federal judge refused to rule Thursday on whether the patent-in-suit was invalid.
U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel also granted Wireless Ink's motion to toss Facebook and Google's counterclaims seeking a declaration that the patents were invalid, but he refused to grant the company's request to strike the defendants' invalidity argument as an affirmative defense.
The defendants had argued that...
Google, Facebook Lose Bid To Toss Mobile Web IP Suit
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