Apple and Samsung have made their final pitches to Judge Lucy Koh in their latest Silicon Valley patents battle, but other decisions, on both sides of the Atlantic, may have a longer term impact on the thorny web of mobile IPR practice. EU competition authorities have ruled that Motorola Mobility did abuse its dominant market position in its own Apple fight, while the US Supreme Court is doling out judgements which may reduce the power of patent trolls. The European Commission is conducting a series of probes of how major handset makers, including Motorola and Samsung, have licensed their standards-essential patents (SEP), which should be subject to Frand (fair reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms, ill-defined as these often are. The EC’s…