Apple, which recently won a $1.2 billion patent case against Samsung, came up the loser in another patent trial but also prevailed over Alcatel-Lucent in another.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) an infringement case brought by patent-licensing firm MobileMedia Ideas LLC when a federal jury decided the maker of the iPhone misappropriated protected technology for handheld devices.

In its complaint, MobileMedia contended it would suffer “irreparable injury” if Apple was allowed to use the patented inventions in its iPhone without paying royalties.

“We’re very pleased,” MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Larry Horn said in a post-trial courtroom interview. “We think it’s justified.”

“We’re not in the litigation business” and just want to license the patents, Horn said. The patents in the suit were originally owned by Sony and Nokia, according to court filings.

Horn said one patent is for the camera phone and others cover call handling and call rejection. He said MobileMedia has a portfolio of about 300 patents.
MobileMedia Ideas told Judge Robinson in a court disclosure statement that 10 percent or more of its stock is owned by Nokia Corp., Sony Corp. of America and MPEG LA, a patent-licensing authority.

Jurors in Wilmington, Delaware, deliberated about four hours after a weeklong trial before also concluding today that the three patents are not invalid.

U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson hasn’t yet scheduled a trial on damages, which Horn said could be “substantial.”

Apple declined to comment on the verdict, spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in an e-mail.

MobileMedia, based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, sued Apple in 2010, contending it infringed 14 patents for electronics. Robinson took the case to trial after the number of patents was whittled to three.

Apple vs. Alcatel-Lucent

In another case, Apple and LG Electronics Inc. didn’t infringe an Alcatel-Lucent SA unit’s patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said Thursday.

The verdict today came after a trial that began Nov. 27 in federal court in San Diego over a 2010 lawsuit by the Paris- based company’s Multimedia Patent Trust accusing Apple and LG Electronics of copying video-compression technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over communications media, including the Internet and satellites, or stored on DVDs and Blu-Ray disks.

The trust claimed its patents were infringed by products including multiple versions of Apple’s iPhone, iPod, iPad and MacBook, as well as LG Electronics’ Chocolate Touch VX8575, Bliss UX700, Touch AX8575, Lotus Elite LX610, Mystique UN610 and Samba LG8575.

Alcatel-Lucent’s attorney, Frederick Lorig, asked jurors to award $172.3 million in royalty damages from Apple and $9.1 million from LG Electronics. Apple was accused of infringing three Alcatel-Lucent patents and LG Electronics was alleged to have infringed two of the patents.

(Bloomberg contributed to this report.)