Motorola sues Microsoft

[madtownidiot]

Motorola sues Microsoft, alleges patent infringement..

November 11, 2010 | 12:56 pm

Motorola The battle of lawsuits between Microsoft and Motorola continues. On Thursday, Motorola filed a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft has infringed on 16 of its patents in the Windows operating system, Windows mobile software and the Xbox video game consoles.

The Motorola suit comes a day after Microsoft filed its own suit against Motorola claiming that the cellphone maker inflated royalties for networking technology that the software giant uses in the Xbox.

In all, Microsoft has filed two lawsuits against Motorola over about the last month. The first suit Microsoft alleged that technology used in Motorola's smart phones running Google's Android operating system were infringing on nine of Microsoft's patents....

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And in a related article from yesterday

Microsoft sues Motorola, again

November 10, 2010 | 2:35 pm
Microsoft escalated its legal battle with Motorola Inc. on Tuesday with a lawsuit accusing the phone maker of charging inflated royalties for networking technology that the software giant uses in its Xbox gaming system.
The suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, comes on the heels of another lawsuit filed by Microsoft against its former partner in October, accusing Motorola of violating a number of Microsoft trade patents in some of its Android-backed smart phones.
The latest suit accuses Motorola of breaching its commitments to standards organizations such as the International Telecommunications Union that allow other companies to license its patents connected to wireless technology and video coding, which Microsoft uses in its Xbox console.

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[nailgunner]

Sounds like good job security for the respective lawyers.

 

[targnik]

I use both ^^

I guess Bill has more $$$

Go Motorola!! :lol:

 

[JMH]

Sounds like good job security for the respective lawyers.

If people didn't get themselves into sticky situations Lawyers wouldn't exist!

The human element will guarantee job security for Legal Eagles.

 

[eldinv]

Guess I need to put the beer down for tonight, patients? Motorola, Android?

 

[smarteyeball]

The human element will guarantee job security for Legal Eagles.

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