The California-based tech behemoth is also locked in a lengthy legal challenge with its Korean rival in the courts, with numerous patent infringement cases pending in over 10 different countries.

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BIO, the influential biotechnology industry organization, has said it is concerned with a provision of the House bill that seeks to reduce the amount of damages awarded in patent infringement cases.

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And the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years been handing down rulings generally seen to be helpful to defendants in patent infringement cases, in one notable case severely limiting the ability of outfits that do not conduct actual business operations to assert patents in court.

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While big tech companies like Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. typically grab the headlines in patent-infringement cases, Ms. Endress's situation illustrates a less visible trend: Intellectual-property claims against tech startups are rising.

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The case hinges on whether judges should issue an injunction as a matter of course in cases of patent infringement.

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The end result of this is that Motorolo and Samsung are rather weakened in their cases for patent infringement by others, including Microsoft and Apple.

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And second, patent law awards triple damages in cases of willful infringement.

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Patent-holding plaintiffs won 63% of all infringement cases in Dusseldorf between 2006 and 2009, according to recent research by the Global IP Project, a series of studies initiated by the law firm Finnegan.

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