Apple and Google's Motorola drop 14 patents from litigation in the Southern District of Florida

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Source: www.fosspatents.com --- Monday, July 29, 2013
In connection with the patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility, the Google subsidiary's assertions of FRAND-pledged standard-essential patents (SEPs) have recently received most of the attention ( allegation that Motorola demanded more than 12 times the royalty from Apple that it charged others , finalization of FTC-Google consent decree , upcoming Federal Circuit hearing on the "Posner appeal" ). But Motorola is also asserting some non-SEPs against Apple (and, of course, all of Apple's assertions against Motorola relate to non-SEPs), such as the infamous, clinically-dead push notification patent is is still enforcing against Apple in Germany . In the United States, a Motorola ITC complaint against Apple involving SEPs and non-SEPs was dismissed (and is being appealed ). And between 2010 and 2012 Motorola asserted a dozen non-SEPs against Apple in the Southern District of Florida, where Apple countersued over the same number of patents. The 24-patent Miami litigation is currently scheduled to go to trial in August 2014 . Judge Robert N. Scola, the federal judge presiding over this case, was thoroughly disappointed that the parties couldn't agree on how to narrow their case without asking the court to provide a large number of claim constructions as guidance to aid that process. As a result, he pushed back the case by four months, which is more of a problem for Google (which still has nothing to show in U.S. litigation ...

Source: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/07/apple-and-googles-motorola-drop-14.html

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