美国国际贸易委员会已经发现,游戏设备并未侵犯谷歌的摩托罗拉移动单元所拥有的专利后拒绝了微软的Xbox禁令的请求。
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美国国际贸易委员会的裁决周四基本上已经确认了行政法官大卫P.肖初步裁决3月份在Xbox没有侵犯与无线对等网络通信的摩托罗拉专利。
“我们对这个决定感到失望,并正在评估我们的选项,”摩托罗拉的发言人威廉·莫斯周四一封电子邮件中说。
有问题的专利是最后这是由摩托罗拉指责侵犯其专利的五个微软提起在美国国际贸易委员会于2010年11月的纠纷。
谷歌收购摩托罗拉去年为US $ 12.5十亿,在其专利组合的一部分。
摩托罗拉dropped two patents relating to the H.264 video encoding standard from the investigation in January this year after Microsoft filed that it expected Motorola to withdraw claims relating to the patents in view of a settlement earlier in the month between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over standard-essential patents and other issues. Two other patents, relating to the 802.11 standard, were withdrawn by Motorola from the investigation in October last year.
Judge Shaw had in April last year recommended a ban on Xbox consoles in the U.S., and found that Microsoft failed to establish that Motorola's alleged obligation to provide a license on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms precluded a finding of violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Section 337 investigations conducted by the ITC most often involve claims regarding intellectual property rights, including allegations of patent infringement and trademark infringement by imported goods, and can lead to the ban on their imports into the U.S.
美国国际贸易委员会决定审查的建议,并押调查肖法官。
政府机构,包括美国联邦贸易委员会,美国国会议员和企业都告诫的标准必要专利的滥用,寻求对产品的销售禁令。
在苹果和三星电子,美国参议员迈克·李,艾米·克罗布彻,马克·贝吉奇和吉姆·里施之间的争端本周早些时候致信ITC写对于标准制定过程中有效地发挥作用,已承诺在授权FRAND条款的标准必要专利的公司必须寻求通过特许权使用费的协议或合理的速度的司法认定,以解决他们在他们的专利纠纷。
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