U.S court orders Motorola to pay $10.2 million to Fujifilm

U.S court orders Motorola to pay $10.2 million to Fujifilm

In a case filed by Fujifilm against Motorola over infringement of a patent by the latter, the jury in San Francisco ordered Motorola Mobility to pay $10.2 million in damages for using Fujifilm Corp's patented technology in its phones without permission.

Fujifilm Corp, a subsidiary of Tokyo based Fujifilm Holdings Corp, sued Motorola in 2012, accusing the company of infringing three of its patents on digital camera functions and a fourth patent relating to transmitting data over a wireless connection such as Bluetooth.

The jury in San Francisco recognized that Motorola, a unit of China's Lenovo group, proved that three of the disputed patents i.e., patents on face recognition and Wi-Fi Bluetooth stand to be invalid.

However, Motorola failed to prevail on a patent related to converting colour images to monochrome.

William Moss, Motorola Spokesperson said, "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".