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Beijing court has ruled against Apple Inc by upholding the validity of a patent
held by a Chinese company, clearing the way for the Chinese company to continue
its own case against Apple for infringing intellectual property rights.
Apple
had taken Shanghai-based Zhizhen Internet Technology and China's State
Intellectual Property Office to court to seek a ruling that Zhizhen's patent
rights to a speech recognition technology were invalid.
But
the Beijing First Intermediate Court on Tuesday decided in
