Judge dismisses Apple lawsuit versus Motorola over standards-based patents

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/11/apple-moto-frand-dismissed.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/05/judge-dismisses-apple-lawsuit-versus-motorola-over-frand-patents/)Apple may have just learned a lesson about all-or-nothing gambles. Judge Crabb has dismissed the company's lawsuit against Motorola over fair royalties for standards-based patents after the firm said it would only accept court-dictated payouts to Motorola of less than $1 per iPhone. To say that Crabb isn't eager to be used as leverage for a discount is an understatement -- she flipped from leaning towards a trial just days earlier to preventing Apple from suing over the same dispute unless it wins an appeal. The decision doesn't represent the first time the Cupertino team has had a lawsuit tossed this year (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/22/judge-dismisses-apple-vs-motorola-in-its-entirety-companies-un/), although it comes as Motorola has faced its own share of legal setbacks (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/24/itc-decides-apple-didnt-violate-motorola-wifi-patent-after-all/); the two parties are still very much in a stalemate (http://www.engadget.com/tag/apple,motorola,lawsuit). All we know for certain is that any royalty decision will have to come through either a (currently unlikely) settlement or through a separate trial.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/05/judge-dismisses-apple-lawsuit-versus-motorola-over-frand-patents/