Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) went in front of the U.S. International Trade Commission this past week with an attempt to block Motorola Mobility from selling the Droid 2, Droid X, Devour, Backflip, and Cliq XT smartphones in the United States. Microsoft said that Motorola is infringing on 7 of their patents that relates to how a user interacts with contacts, e-mails, calendars, etc.

A new light in the patent battle between HTC and Apple: HTC has announced that it is willing to negotiate with Apple. Each company has won a few ITC patent rulings, but Bloomberg reports that an end may be in sight as HTC’s CFO Winston Yung said the company is “open to having discussions” and “open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable.” His statement sounds like a fairly obvious offer, but the admission could lead to white flags from both sides.

A judge with the International Trade Commission has been persuaded that HTC is infringing upon two of Apple’s patents. This is an initial determination made by an administrative law judge (ALJ) according to FOSS Patents.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said that HTC and Nokia should not be found liable for infringing on Apple’s patents. Staff lawyer Erin Joffre disclosed their position on the matter during the ITC trial in Washington earlier this week. Apple is seeking that HTC mobile phones running on the Google Android operating system should be banned along with some of Nokia’s devices.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has filed legal actions with the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington against Barnes & Noble Inc., Foxconn, and Inventec Corporation for patent infringement by their Android-based e-reader and tablet devices that is being marketed under the Barnes & Noble brand.

LG Electronics has filed a complaint against Sony with the International Trade Commission. The complaint is about patent infringement. LG filed the complaint on February 4th and accused Sony’s Bravia and PlayStation 3 of infringing on their patent. LG referred to 8 separate patents. Along with the ITC filing, there will be a federal court case. [Bloomberg]

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) and Samsung Electronics have settled a patent dispute and has entered a cross-license agreement as a result. Samsung will be paying Kodak undisclosed sums for payments as part of future royalty obligations too.

The agreement was made as a result of a United States International Trade Commission judge ruling that Samsung was violating two of Kodak’s camera patents. If an agreement was not reached between both companies, the Commission would have a deeper investigation.