Microsoft Continues Android Legal Assault

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.'"

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Re:List of these important patented innovations

[binkzz]

The Microsoft-created features protected by the patents infringed by the Nook and Nook Color tablet are core to the user experience. For example, the patents we asserted today protect innovations that:

- Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;

- Enable display of a webpageâ€(TM)s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;

- Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;

- Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and

- Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.

Sorry for not using preview :-"

Re:IF they hold the patents

[harl]

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.