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Intellectual Property

Nov. 9, 2012

Google faces showdown with Microsoft next week over "standard essential" patents

Google Inc. is gearing up to defend itself next week against Microsoft Corp., just one in a slew of legal battles the company faces over its "standard essential" patents.


By Rachel Swan


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Google Inc. is gearing up to defend itself next week against Microsoft Corp., just one in a slew of legal battles the company faces over its "standard essential" patents.


After the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prevented Google's subsidiary, Motorola Mobility, from enforcing an injunction against the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant in Germany, the two titans were left to spar in S...

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