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Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents

walterbyrd (182728) writes "A list of hundreds of patents that Microsoft believes entitle it to royalties over Android phones, and perhaps smartphones in general, has been published on a Chinese language website. The patents Microsoft plans to wield against Android describe a range of technologies. They include lots of technologies developed at Microsoft, as well as patents that Microsoft acquired by participating in the Rockstar Consortium, which spent $4.5 billion on patents that were auctioned off after the Nortel bankruptcy."

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  1. Re:What happened the the prior article? by Etherwalk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, that's one way to handle repeat articles, delete the original one.

    It's almost as if we were talking about the Chinese Government...