Law360 reported that the Oakland federal judge overseeing Apple Inc.'s bid to invalidate McKool Smith client WiLAN Inc. data transmission patents granted WiLAN's motion Thursday to ship the tech giant's claims to a San Diego federal court to join a related suit, but said he will hang onto Apple's claims against patents of a WiLAN subsidiary.
New York Associate Kevin Schubert said, "“they involve the same products, and the same Qualcomm chip. The similarities are too important” not to combine the Oakland and San Diego cases.
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