Apple and Google’s Motorola Mobility affiliate have separately appealed a US federal judge’s June 22 ruling to dismiss a patent case.
Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed Apple’s patent case against Motorola "with prejudice," denying injunction request from both the companies and also ruled that neither party could resubmit the lawsuit.
In June, the judge temporarily closed down the patent case, before its scheduled June 11 trial, after rejecting both sides’ damages arguments.
That trial would have been the first between the two companies after Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, reported Bloomberg.
Apple also requested for an injunction against the sale of some of Motorola’s phones that infringe its four patents in the follow up trial.
Apple sued Motorola for infringement of four patents related to the smartphone and set-top TV-box, some of which are used in Motorola’s Droid-branded mobile phones and in its Xoom tablet.
Motorola then brought a counterclaim alleging that the iPhone maker infringed certain of its wireless technology patents relating to technologies like 3G, GPRS, 802.11 wireless and antenna design.
In a complaint with the US International Trade Commission in October 2010, Motorola unit Motorola Mobility alleged that Apple’s products including the MobileMe and the App Store violated 18 patents it owns.
