Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents

walterbyrd (182728) writes "A list of hundreds of patents that Microsoft believes entitle it to royalties over Android phones, and perhaps smartphones in general, has been published on a Chinese language website. The patents Microsoft plans to wield against Android describe a range of technologies. They include lots of technologies developed at Microsoft, as well as patents that Microsoft acquired by participating in the Rockstar Consortium, which spent $4.5 billion on patents that were auctioned off after the Nortel bankruptcy."

Re:But no one really cares about Microsoft...

[Jason Levine]

Maybe Microsoft could increase their marketshare by 50%: And get to 1.5% of the market.

Re:What happened the the prior article?

[Etherwalk]

Well, that's one way to handle repeat articles, delete the original one.

It's almost as if we were talking about the Chinese Government...

Ahh, everything working as it should...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Doesn't it warm the free-market cockles of your heart that levels of 'market transparency' in "intellectual property", and the licensing thereof, that a regulatory action taken by commie chinese is the biggest boost it's had in years?

Good work on that free market, guys.