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Apple and Motorola Mobility, now a subsidiary of Google, have separately appealed the June decision of a U.S. federal judge to throw out their patent infringement case, according to the “IDG News Service” (http://macte.ch/HyLTX).

In June U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner canceled Apple’s patent infringement jury trial against Motorola Mobility after rejecting each side’s damages arguments. “You have to prove injury,” he told the companies’ lawyers at the time.

Smart TV manufacturers are hoping that the popularity of apps with smartphone and tablet users makes its way to the living room. Manufacturers and retailers are selling more and more televisions preloaded with Internet-connected functionality, frequently referred to as Smart TVs, according to Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com).

U.S. judge has approved Apple’s request to bar disparaging statements by the late Steve Jobs about Google’s Android operating system from an upcoming patent trial against Samsung, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/x7qUz).

The late Apple CEO blasted Samsung’s intellectual property procedures several times. He even said he was willing to go “thermonuclear” to “destroy” the Google operating system used in many mobile Samsung devices.

In a note to clients — as reported by “Fortune” — Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster reported the results of his annual cell phone survey. Among the key points:

° Asked what phone they were going to buy next, 65% said an iPhone, 19% said a Google Android, 6.5% said “not a smartphone,” 6% said “I don’t know,” and 2.5% said a Research in Motion Blackberry.

° Fifty-one percent of respondents who planned on making the iPhone their next smartphone (whether current iPhone users or not) said they were waiting for the next gen iPhone.