UK court dismisses Motorola's patent as invalid

In a major twist to an ongoing patent battle involving Microsoft Corp. and Google-owned Motorola Mobility, a UK court has ruled that the latter's patent is invalid. As per a Bloomberg report, Judge Richard Arnold ruled that Motorola's patent technology pertaining to synchronising message statuses across several devices is not valid. In fact, in his London ruling, Judge Arnold shared that the 2002 patent owned by Google Inc. Motorola Mobility unit shouldn’t have been issued, since the technology “was obvious to experts in the field at the time". Click here for full story