The court injunctions are the latest in a string of patent disputes between Apple and MMI, which Google is buying for $12.5bn.
Though Bristol-Myers still faces significant challenges, analysts were pleased with the company's performance as it pushes to resolve problems including a string of patent losses and a huge inventory backlog.
This is just the latest in a string of patent suits and counter-suits between the two tech giants.
While Microsoft may not be the most sympathetic defendant, especially given its growing string of patent assertions, this rule helps patent thugs and opportunists of all kinds.
The GOP's long history of shoot-from-the-hip racist and homophobic slurs, gaffes, digs, and insults (always followed by the kind of wink and nod apology of the kind that Wilson gave to Obama) was just the latest in a string of patented insults.
Asthma inhalers, for example, are protected by strings of patents — for pumps, delivery systems and production processes — that are hard to skirt to make generic alternatives, even when the medicines they contain are old, as they almost all are.
From here, Kexing intends to launch a string of new patents on to the international market.
The patent was originally filed back in December of 2007 as a part of a string of provisional patent applications that go back as early as January 2007.
Indeed, it is now best known, for better or worse, for applying biotechnology to seed production, winning a string of the sort of patents on living organisms that became legal in America only after a Supreme Court decision in 1980.
Apple sues Samsung in the US over the appearance of the Galaxy Tab tablet, and follows it up with a string of legal cases around the world claiming infringement of patents and "trade dress".
