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Intellectual Property

May 28, 2013

Motorola Mobility patents are not giving Google much leverage in battle with Microsoft

Google Inc. has suffered another setback in its efforts to use Motorola Mobility LLC patents to gain leverage in its smartphone legal battles with Microsoft Corp.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Google Inc. has suffered another setback in its efforts to use Motorola Mobility LLC patents to gain leverage in its smartphone legal battles with Microsoft Corp.


The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled last week that Microsoft's Xbox video gaming device did not infringe a Google-owned wireless communications patent.


The ITC started investigating the Xbox patents in 2010 in resp...

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