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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    InterDigital says ITC staff in favor of Samsung in patent suit

    Tue Jul 8, 2008 12:40pm EDT

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    (Reuters) - Wireless technology firm InterDigital Inc (IDCC.O) received a blow in an ongoing patent infringement case with the U.S. International Trade Commission's staff recommending in favor of South Korea's Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), sending InterDigital's shares down as much as 28 percent.

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    In a statement, the company said the U.S. ITC staff recommended that Samsung, the world's No. 2 mobile handset maker, did not engage in unfair trade practices related to third-generation mobile technology.

    InterDigital has maintained that Samsung engaged in unfair practices by selling certain 3G handsets and components in the United States that infringe five of InterDigital's patents.

    Last week, InterDigital and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) agreed to drop patent cases in British courts against each other.

    Shares of InterDigital fell $6.15 to $19.11 in midday trade on Nasdaq. The stock had touched a low of $18.09 earlier.

    (Reporting by S John Tilak in Bangalore; Editing by Deepak Kannan)
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