WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court overturned a pretrial sales ban against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone, dealing a setback to Apple Inc in its battle against Google Inc’s increasingly popular mobile software.

Apple is waging war on several fronts against Google, whose Android software powers many of Samsung’s devices.

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court
overturned a preliminary injunction on the sale of Samsung
Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone on
Thursday, dealing a setback to Apple Inc in its battle against
Google Inc’s increasingly popular mobile software.

Apple is waging war on several fronts against
Google, whose Android software powers many of Samsung’s devices.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court overturned a preliminary injunction on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Thursday, dealing a blow to Apple Inc in a battle against Google Inc’s increasingly popular mobile software.

Apple is waging war on several fronts against Google, whose Android software powers many of the Korean giant’s devices. In one of the more visible signs of that battle, a high-wattage trial to determine whether Samsung’s products infringed on Apple patents ended in August with a sweeping victory for the iPhone maker.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Consumer credit rating company Equifax Inc (EFX.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has agreed to pay $393,000 to settle allegations that it improperly sold information on consumers who had fallen behind on their mortgages, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.

Equifax Information Services LLC improperly sold 17,000 such lists of consumer information to Direct Lending Source, which turned around and sold them to companies under investigation for allegedly duping consumers with mortgage rescue scams, the FTC said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Trade Commission asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to take up its fight against deals between brand-name drug companies and generic firms which they say delay the production of cheaper medicines.

The U.S. solicitor general filed an appeal on behalf of the agency asking the high court to hear the FTC’s fight with Solvay, now owned by Abbott Laboratories, and three generic makers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – The United States has taken
steps to shut down several fake tech support scams that have
cost consumers tens of millions of dollars, the Federal Trade
Commission said on Wednesday.

In the scheme, six separate rings of scam artists, most in
India, call people in the United States, Canada, Australia and
elsewhere, identify themselves as working for reputable
companies and ask the victim to check his or her computer. The
consumers are then told their computer has a virus that can be
removed for a fee of $49 to $450.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility has dropped a complaint of patent infringement against Apple without explanation.

In a brief filing with the International Trade Commission made on Monday, Motorola Mobility said it was dropping without prejudice a complaint that Apple had infringed on seven Motorola patents.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. antitrust regulators found no wrongdoing in a deal made four years ago between German drugmaker Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and a division of Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA.TA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to end patent litigation over the popular Yasmin birth control pill.

The Federal Trade Commission, in letters dated September 26 but posted on the agency’s website this week, said it had reviewed the matter and said, “No further action is warranted by the commission at this time. Accordingly, the investigation has been closed.”

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Advertisers who try to entice
customers with promises that their products are “green” or
“eco-friendly” could quickly get in hot water with regulators if
they cannot prove it, the Federal Trade Commission said on
Monday.

Environmental and consumer groups have long been frustrated
by advertising that touts products as good for the environment
when, in fact, they often are not.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, a judge at the International Trade Commission said in a preliminary ruling on Friday.

Apple and Samsung have taken their bruising patent disputes to some 10 countries as they vie for market share in the booming mobile industry. Apple won a landmark victory last month after a U.S. jury found the South Korean firm had copied key features of the iPhone and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.