Motorola settles Metrologic case

Court case of nearly 4 years comes to an end


3 January 2008 11:41 GMT / By Katie Scott

A patent infringement battle that has been running since 2002 has finally been settled.

A subsidiary of mobile phone manufacturer Motorola called Symbol Technologies Inc and Metrologic Instruments Inc were in dispute over bar-code scanning and mobile computing patents.

However, the two companies have now released a joint statement stating that they have settled all of their disputes.

As part of an agreement between them, the two companies will cross-license their patents for a limited term.
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