Judge Rules for Microsoft in Google Patent Licensing Case

In a setback for Google, a U.S. appeals court ruled that the low licensing rate Microsoft pays to use some of Google’s Motorola Mobility patents had been properly set. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said a lower court judge properly determined the patents’ value even though the royalty rate was only a fraction of what Motorola had asked for.

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