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Microsoft Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Motorola Mobility

Posted by Unknown on from the evil-fighting-evil dept.

judgecorp writes "Microsoft has filed a complaint with the European Commission complaining that Motorola Mobility is charging too much for use of its patented technology in phones and tablets. The complaint follows a similar one by Apple last week, and will need to be resolved by Google as it takes charge of Motorola Mobility."

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  1. That's rich by damicatz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is coming from a company that makes a business out of extorting Android phone makers for money.

    1. Re:That's rich by recoiledsnake · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The problem is that if this is allowed, all the companies will start suing each other over technology that they previously added to the standard on the promise of FRAND.

      Eg. Look at the large number companies in the H.264 patent list. http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.pdf

      Don't forget that MS has patents in the patent pool and a zillion other patents not in it. They can easily turn around and sue everyone in sight for exorbitant amounts for implementing standards.

      And it will happen not just with H.264 but everything else too.

      Imagine Nokia suing Motorola and Apple for $50 per phone for implementing LTE (a standard). You'd expect Apple and Motorola to rollout their own 4G network and towers?

      Or MS suing Google over patents on Google docs importing MS Office documents (OOXML).

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  2. Pot, meet Kettle. by Severus+Snape · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I started to read the blog Microsoft wrote, I got as far as reading the title "Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web" and couldn't read any more. Do Microsoft really think all of our memories are that short?