Motorola To Pay Fujifilm $10.2 Million In Damages For Patent Infringement

Motorola to pay Fujifilm $10.2 million in damages for patent infringement

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Published 5 May 2015

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A U.S. jury has ordered Motorola to pay 10.2$ million for infringing some of the patents of Fujifilm Corporation.

Fujifilm had sued Motorola in 2012 for infringing three of its patents related to some of the functions offered by its digital camera and a fourth patent related to transferring data over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other such wireless networks.

The Tokyo based company had asked for $40 million in damages, but the San Francisco jury has only ordered Motorola to pay $10.2 million. This is likely because Motorola was able to prove three of the four patents invalid in the court.

“We are pleased with the verdict related to three out of the four patents and are evaluating our options on the one patent on which we did not prevail,” Motorola spokesman William Moss said in an email to Reuters.

Motorola was purchased by Google in 2012 for $12.5 billion mainly for its patents and was sold by the latter to Lenovo last year for $2.91 billion after acquiring all its patents.

[Via Reuters]