Legal Opinion
Microsoft Corporation v. Motorola, Inc
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 28, 2012No. 12-35352PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
In this interlocutory appeal, Motorola appeals from the district court’s preliminary injunction to enjoin Motorola temporarily from enforcing a patent injunction that it obtained against Microsoft in Germany. We review the district court’s grant of a foreign anti-suit injunction under the deferential abuse-of-discretion standard, and affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The parties are involved in ongoing contract and patent litigation before the district court. We recite here only the factual and procedural history most relevant to this interlocutory appeal.
A. Standard-setting…
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