Motorola and Samsung won a small victory in Mannheim Regional Court this week when a panel ruled that the two companies do not infringe on Apple's "touch event model patent," says Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. Judge Andreas Voss oversaw the two separate lawsuits that happened to make their way through the German court at the same time.
According to FOSS Patents, Apple patent EP2098948 is a fairly broad patent that describes how an operating system recognizes touch events in multitouch enabled devices. Because of its general nature, enforcement of the patent would have required a significant amount of effort to develop a
