Motorola’s BlackBerry Case Dealt Setback in UK

by Chris Chiappinelli

Posted on Feb 05, 2010

A week after Motorola took its patent case against rival Research in Motion to the U.S. International Trade Commission, the company’s broader intellectual property campaign appears to have been dealt a setback, as a U.K. court ruled at least one of Motorola’s patents to be invalid.

The two companies compete in the highly contested mobile phone market, RIM primarily with its BlackBerry devices and Motorola with a range of devices, including the new Droid phone, based on Google’s Android platform.