“Reuters” reports (http://tinyurl.com/meb9sr5) that an appeals court has ruled that Apple doesn’t use use patented technology owned by Motorola Mobility, a Google unit, in making its iPhones.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by the International Trade Commission in April that Apple didn’t violate a Google patent to make their smartphone. In 2010 Motorola Mobility accused Apple of infringing on six of its patents covering technology such as reducing signal noise and programming the device’s touch screen so a user’s head does not accidentally activate it while talking on the phone.
The ITC ruled in April 2013 that Apple did not violate any of the six. The appeals court addressed just one of the six patents.