Microsoft Continues Android Legal Assault

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:32AM from the business-as-usual dept.

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:IF they hold the patents by harl · 2011-03-21 09:51 · 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.

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