Microsoft Continues Android Legal Assault 344
shmlco writes "According to an article on AllThingsD, Microsoft is continuing its legal assault on Android. On Monday the company sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn International and Inventec over the company's Nook e-reader, alleging patent infringement. To quote Microsoft deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, 'The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft's patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights. Their refusals to take licenses leave us no choice but to bring legal action.'"
List of these important patented innovations (Score:2, Informative)
Re:List of these important patented innovations (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry for not using preview :-"
Promised not to do this? (Score:4, Informative)
Didn't Microsoft promise not to use their patent portfolio in this matter?
Of course, i wasn't one that believed them and i know they are evil, but it would be nice if the media would pound them with being hypocrites.
Re:Big fight about the patent for the laser (Score:4, Informative)
The fight over the laser patent was over the idea not a working model. See for example, http://tc.engr.wisc.edu/uer/uer97/author5/content.html [wisc.edu]
Re:Uh.. (Score:4, Informative)
HP's deep patent warchest would make them a significantly less appealing target than such patent lightweights as Barnes and Noble, Foxconn, or Inventec.. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, Microsoft has cross-licensing agreements with most major computer companies that specifically prevent many lawsuits of this sort.
Re:Wow REALLY Bad Patents (Score:4, Informative)
Re:IF they hold the patents (Score:5, Informative)
No that's how patents work. In the States there used to be a prototype requirement. If you couldn't make it you couldn't patent it.
Then they removed it.
Then patent trolls appeared.