We now have some more substantive evidence of what the FTC thinks about those patents — and it doesn’t bode well for Google. This week the agency filed an??in cross-appeals by Apple and Motorola of Judge?Richard Posner‘s pox-on-both-your-houses??last summer. (Posner sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals but heard the case as a district judge in federal court in Chicago; Apple and Motorola’s cross-appeals of his ruling are before the Federal Circuit.) The brief claims to be in support of neither party, but in reality the FTC sided squarely with Apple, arguing that when Posner refused to grant Motorola an injunction based on Apple’s unlicensed use of standard-essential patents, the judge correctly applied the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling in?.

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