Appeals court revives Microsoft claim against Google

Appeals court revives Microsoft claim against Google

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A man walks past a Motorola logo at a launch event for Motorola's new Moto X phone in New York, August 1, 2013.

Acting on an appeal by Microsoft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the ITC was correct in finding that Motorola Mobility, which has since been bought by Google, did not infringe three patents.

But it found that the ITC erred in its reasoning in finding that a fourth patent was not infringed upon, and asked the ITC to reconsider that patent, which describes a graphical computer interface.

In the original case, the ITC had found that Motorola Mobility did infringe one patent for meeting-scheduling technology.

The case at the ITC was No. 337-744. At the Federal Circuit, the case is No. 2012-1445, -1535.

(Reporting by Diane Bartz, editing by Ros Krasny and Gerald E. McCormick)

news by October 04, 2013 at 02:01AM