Judge tosses 13 Motorola patent claims against Microsoft

A federal judge in Washington state has invalidated more than a dozen patent claims in the case of Microsoft v. Motorola.

Right now the winner (of this particular skirmish) is Microsoft over Google-owned Motorola Mobility.

On Wednesday, Judge James L. Robart of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, issued an order in favor of Microsoft, invalidating 13 patent claims.

Those claims are in reference to just three patents (U.S. Patent No. 7,310,374, U.S. Patent No. 7,310,375, U.S. Patent No. 7,310,376) -- all of which have to do with encoding and decoding digital video content.

Microsoft had petitioned that the "means for decoding" and the "means for using" elements of the patents in question be declared as invalid based on ... [Read more]





by Rachel King via CNET