Taiwan's Elan Microelectronics has lost a ruling with the U.S. International Trade Commission revolving around a patent dispute with Apple. Judge Paul Luckern of the U.S. trade panel found in favor of Apple against Elan's lawsuit over multi-touch technology patents, specifically one that describes a means of detecting the presence of two or more fingers on a touch-sensitive panel. The judge found in his initial decision that there had been no violation of the Elan patent.
