Microsoft, Motorola Add 9 Patents To Ongoing Court Battle

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 26, 2010 @02:53AM from the who-blinks-first dept.

FlorianMueller writes "Patent suits are the IT industry's new Christmas cards: Microsoft and Motorola just added new accusations to their row. Motorola filed another suit in the Western District of Wisconsin, for the first time also attacking the Kinect. Microsoft threw in seven patents in Southern Florida. Two of them cover touchscreen technologies and two allegedly read on Motorola's DVRs. At this stage of the game, 35 patents are in suit between the companies. Afraid to lose track of so much peace and harmony? There's a visualization available (detailed reference material included)."

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2010. The beginning of the Great Patent Wars. by mswhippingboy · 2010-12-26 03:15 · Score: 4, Interesting

2010 may well mark the beginning of the "Great Patent Wars" where the patent system will begin consuming itself in mutually assured destruction.

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