Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Mapping Patents

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:50AM from the 1-2-3-sue dept.

jfruh writes "The mobile patent wars continue, with two of the world's biggest tech companies about to blunder into direct conflict. Microsoft holds a number of patents that it claims give it rights over mobile map applications that overlay data from multiple databases (map info from one database and store location info from another, for instance). Many Android vendors already pay Redmond licensing fees for their mapping apps; now Redmond is going to court in Germany to sue one of the holdouts: Motorola Mobility, which is of course owned by Google."

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Apple + Microsoft by should_be_linear · 2012-10-11 08:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

Owners of "Sore losers" patent pool.

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1. Re:Apple + Microsoft by poetmatt · 2012-10-11 08:32 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Owners of the "how dare you compete with us?" pool, you mean. Same thing though. Does MS realize how quickly this will backfire? You know they're only using German courts to avoid publicity and pull an East Texas, which is not going to happen here.
Obviousness by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-11 08:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

> map applications that overlay data from multiple databases
Sounds blatantly obvious to someone skilled in the art...