June 25, 2012
The ruling Friday throwing out a patent dispute between Apple Inc. and Motorola Inc. could have broad ramifications for the global patent war being waged over smartphones by toughening the standards for proving damages and limiting injunctions on standard-essential patents, attorneys say.
June 20, 2012
A federal judge grilled attorneys for Apple Inc. and Motorola on Wednesday at a hearing over the smartphone makers' competing bids for injunctions, telling Apple a ban on Motorola's phones could be "catastrophic" and that an order protecting Motorola's standard essential patent also seemed problematic.
June 14, 2012
The Illinois federal judge hearing Apple Inc.'s smartphone patent infringement suit against Motorola Inc. said Wednesday that he would give the companies a chance to argue for injunctions, less than a week after he canceled the trial and indicated he might dismiss the case.
June 07, 2012
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday canceled the trial in Apple Inc. and Motorola's smartphone patent infringement war that was to begin June 11 after finding during a hearing, and ruling "tentatively" in an order later, that both companies' damages theories fell flat.
June 06, 2012
Motorola and Apple Inc. sparred Wednesday over whether their imminent smartphone patent trial should still be held if a judge rules they are not entitled to damages, with Apple saying it should go ahead and Motorola saying the trial should be canceled.
June 05, 2012
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. on Tuesday lost part of its counterclaims against Apple Inc. over smartphone technology when an Illinois federal judge ruled the iPhone maker didn't infringe one of two Motorola patents that were remaining in the suit.
June 04, 2012
Days ahead of their smartphone patent trial, a federal judge on Sunday ordered Motorola and Apple Inc. to explain whether the trial should proceed if he grants both parties' motions arguing their opponent is not entitled to damages or an injunction.
June 01, 2012
Attorneys for Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility Inc. will be barred from making any reference to the late Steve Jobs' sometimes-profane biography in the company's looming patent trial with Apple Inc., the federal judge overseeing the Illinois suit reiterated Thursday.
May 31, 2012
Motorola Inc. told an Illinois federal court Wednesday that Apple Inc.'s smartphone patent infringement case doesn't justify a ban on sales of Motorola phones, arguing that the iPhone maker should have opted to pursue monetary damages related to its claims.
May 03, 2012
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid to toss portions of Apple Inc.'s damages expert report in its smartphone patent suit against Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., rejecting Motorola's contentions that revisions to a damages estimate violated an earlier court order.