Motorola Mobility has taken a step towards an import ban on Apple
devices after a court ruled that the Cupertino firm had violated one of
its patents.
Google moved to acquire Motorola Mobility
at the end of last year, with its main aim to secure the vast number of
patents the company owned which would allow it to defend the Android
mobile platform from rivals.
The complaint was initially filled by
Motorola Mobility in October 2011 and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC) has now found that Apple has indeed violated one of the
patents.
The
patent in question refers to 3G technology, but ITC judges did not find
Apple guilty of infringing on a further three patents which were raised
in the case.
