“A U.S. trade judge has rejected Google’s move to block the testimony of a Microsoft expert witness in the latter’s 10-month dispute with Motorola over patents allegedly used by Android,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“On Monday, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Judge Theodore Essex denied Google’s motion to prevent Robert Stevenson, an expert hired by Microsoft, from testifying about the Android source code at an upcoming hearing,” Keizer reports. “Last week, Google accused Microsoft of violating a confidentiality agreement struck between Microsoft, Motorola and Google in the ITC case.”
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Keizer reports, “Essex rejected Google’s motion… Microsoft filed its complaint with the ITC in October 2010, when it charged Motorola with violating several Microsoft patents in Motorola devices powered by Google’s Android operating system.”
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I thought Google was all about “open” and “making the world’s information freely available”..
No… Google is about making YOUR information available to world.
There, I fixed that forya.
Actually making YOUR information available to
worldadvertisers.Now it’s fixed
Making YOUR private information available to anyone with buck, as well as the FBI, CIA, and advertisers.
Oh and the Chinese government that likes to hack Google servers.
Now I fixed it.
Stealing something created by microsoft. That’s desperation.
Didn’t happen.
MS created nothing in Linux with the exception of maybe a FAT file system driver lol.
MS has long threatened linux devs over patents. This is just another step on that road
This crybaby is a spoilt brat. It does not know about misery because it was born with a silver spoon in its mouth. Whatever it wants it gets without any difficulty. This juvenile, in spite of adult supervision, has not grown up to be responsible. It likes to steal other’s toys, but when someone steps on its toys it shouts bloody murder. It also likes to destroy other’s property because it thinks it can.
Google is in the telephony business not because it is serious about it. Google’s behavior is worse than a patent troll. It disrupts other’s business so that it can grow up its ads business. This is the most nefarious activity that should be banned outright. It uses its monopoly in one area to leverage into other areas. This is worse than product dumping by Asian countries in mature markets. Not only is this anti-competitive, but it is also not operating on a level playing field. It uses foreign partners like Samsung and HTC to destroy a host country’s businesses. Google should be stopped. It is the worse terrorist in the US.