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Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

jbrodkin writes "The U.S. International Trade Commission today ordered an import ban on Motorola Mobility Android products, agreeing with Microsoft that the devices infringe a Microsoft patent on 'generating meeting requests' from a mobile device. The import ban stems from a December ruling that the Motorola Atrix, Droid, and Xoom (among 18 total devices) infringed the patent, which Microsoft says is related to Exchange ActiveSync technology. Today, the ITC said in a 'final determination of violation' (PDF) that 'the appropriate form of relief in this investigation is a limited exclusion order prohibiting the unlicensed entry for consumption of mobile devices, associated software and components thereof covered by ... United States Patent No. 6,370,566 and that are manufactured abroad by or on behalf of, or imported by or on behalf of, Motorola.' Motorola (which is being acquired by Google) was the last major Android device maker not to pay off Microsoft in a patent licensing deal. Microsoft has already responded to the decision, saying it hopes Motorola will now reconsider."

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  1. Shill Warning by DeadCatX2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go look at kdps' profile.

    This comment is the ONLY comment by kdps. Ever.

    Geeze, the least you shills could do is make a few other comments to some other posts, so that it wasn't so fucking obvious.

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  2. Shill vs Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this "shilling or trolling" has become so frequent and so blatant, that i'm starting to question whether its not just some loser somewhere with way too much spare time trying to be funny (ie. more troll than shill). Would a real shill be so obvious? Or is that just what they want us to think? mwhahaha!

    1. Re:Shill vs Troll by recoiledsnake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Poe's law states that you can't really tell the difference between someone being serious and a troll.

      http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law

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    2. Re:Shill vs Troll by phrostie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Cool, but is there a law to tell if they are astro-turfing?

    3. Re:Shill vs Troll by Fjandr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Someone seriously trying to astroturf would do the same as someone attempting to troll successfully: neither actually wishes to be detected. Those who are obvious about engaging in either action aren't doing it correctly.

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