Motorola échappe à une attaque de l'université du Texas sur du text messaging

En 1ere instance à Austin , l'université du Texas s'est faite débouttée, alors qu'elle attaquailt une trentaine de fabricants de terminaux pour du software embarqué :

MOTOROLA WINS CASE AGAINST U. OF TEXAS
Motorola Inc., the Schaumburg-based maker of mobile phones, said it won a federal court ruling that its handsets don't infringe a patent for text messaging owned by the University of Texas. The university has sued more than 30 handset manufacturers, claiming their products infringe a patent for software used in text messaging and demanding "hundreds of millions of dollars in damages," Motorola said. Motorola accused the university of engaging in "ambush litigation tactics" by waiting silently for many years while Motorola and many other companies developed text-entry technology for mobile phones, then claiming damages. Following the April 9 decision by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin, the university conceded that the other companies also didn't infringe the patent.