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Limitations on permissible Motorola Mobility commercial activities clarified in UK

( March 11, 2025, 14:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: UK High Court Judge Richard Meade, following a three-day preliminary issues trial in January, construed the terms of a 2011 license agreement between Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Motorola Mobility Inc., which would later be spun off as Motorola Mobility LLC and acquired by Lenovo. Meade defined "commercially reasonable updates or extensions" as "a development from more than one prior product" and said such developments "need not be made in a single change.” Moreover, Meade found, commercially reasonable updates or extensions should be assessed from the perspective of a manufacturer and not a consumer and constitute “what a reasonable person in the cellular handset development business would regard as (i) an update or extension of an Origin Product (via one or more cellular handsets) and (ii) one which is commercially reasonable.” See attached document....

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