Microsoft Corp. today filed a patent infringement action against Motorola, Inc. and issued the following statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing:
“Microsoft filed an action today in the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by Motorola’s Android-based smartphones. The patents at issue relate to a range of functionality embodied in Motorola’s Android smartphone devices that are essential to the smartphone user experience, including synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power.
We have a responsibility to our customers, partners, and shareholders to safeguard the billions of dollars we invest each year in bringing innovative software products and services to market. Motorola needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its Android smartphones.”
Source: Microsoft Corp.
MacDailyNews Take: Android. The multiple patent infringement offender.
We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs, announcing the lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, March 02, 2010
@ iphoneEnvy
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unleash the dogs
unleash the dogs
Who are we rooting for here?
Who are we rooting for here?
Yeah Bizzarro is right “Android is going to be the smartphone and tablet OS of the majority 90% of people out there eventually. Can’t help it, get used to it, that’s how it’s going to be”, yeah just like linux is now with desktop PC’s….
Oh, wait… never mind.
Yeah Bizzarro is right “Android is going to be the smartphone and tablet OS of the majority 90% of people out there eventually. Can’t help it, get used to it, that’s how it’s going to be”, yeah just like linux is now with desktop PC’s….
Oh, wait… never mind.
first of all, why would ANYONE steal from Microsoft. …secondly, Pot, meet Kettle
first of all, why would ANYONE steal from Microsoft. …secondly, Pot, meet Kettle
Let the bottom feeders duke it out for the scraps.
RE: Microsoft – what innovative softwAre products and services? Circa what, 1995?
Don’t think you can copy others technology and just give it away and then not be held liable. Apply that to freely copying OSX or Windows 7 and see what Apple or Microsoft would do. Ignorance of tech ownership is no excuse.
Let the bottom feeders duke it out for the scraps.
RE: Microsoft – what innovative softwAre products and services? Circa what, 1995?
Don’t think you can copy others technology and just give it away and then not be held liable. Apply that to freely copying OSX or Windows 7 and see what Apple or Microsoft would do. Ignorance of tech ownership is no excuse.
Is there a categorized list of patents that Android is being accused of infringing on?
Is there a categorized list of patents that Android is being accused of infringing on?
*** This is good news for Apple!
… As Android’s patent infringement defense cost goes higher Up to eventually lose and pay Up millions of dollars, the iPhone wins again in market share. All other will have to catch up.
… AAPL stocks will just keep going up.
2010 = $301
2011 = $401 period!
*** This is good news for Apple!
… As Android’s patent infringement defense cost goes higher Up to eventually lose and pay Up millions of dollars, the iPhone wins again in market share. All other will have to catch up.
… AAPL stocks will just keep going up.
2010 = $301
2011 = $401 period!
Living in Europe with the iPhone on all carriers in my country available (without sim lock anyway), I have never seen an Android phone yet. I see some cheap Nokia phones quite often, but only twice Windows 6.5, two Blackberries, and one strange Samsung OS. iPhones you see here everywhere.
So I guess Android is more of an American thing? I have heard in Japan they have them too, because iPhone is only on one carrier. After all what I read, I start to be interested just have a look at one of those!
Living in Europe with the iPhone on all carriers in my country available (without sim lock anyway), I have never seen an Android phone yet. I see some cheap Nokia phones quite often, but only twice Windows 6.5, two Blackberries, and one strange Samsung OS. iPhones you see here everywhere.
So I guess Android is more of an American thing? I have heard in Japan they have them too, because iPhone is only on one carrier. After all what I read, I start to be interested just have a look at one of those!
Call me crazy, but I’d love to see apple and msft quasi-working together to take down google.
Call me crazy, but I’d love to see apple and msft quasi-working together to take down google.
Quick, piss on Bizzarro’s post before it disappears.
Quick, piss on Bizzarro’s post before it disappears.
@Observer
Me too. And I HATE Microsoft.
@Observer
Me too. And I HATE Microsoft.
“Quick, piss on Bizzarro’s post before it disappears.”
Now that’s silly; we’d have to pee on our own screen to do that. Better to just piss on Bizzarro himself.
“Quick, piss on Bizzarro’s post before it disappears.”
Now that’s silly; we’d have to pee on our own screen to do that. Better to just piss on Bizzarro himself.