With a trial date nearing, Intellectual Ventures has cleared a major hurdle in a smartphone patent case it brought against Google Inc. subsidiary Motorola Mobility Inc.

In a 71-page decision issued on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Delaware mostly denied a motion for summary judgment filed by Motorola’s lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell. Robinson tossed one of the six patents IV is asserting, but ultimately allowed the other five to go to a jury. A trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 21.

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