Motorola May Be Violating Another Microsoft Patent
Microsoft has scored another victory against the Android camp as the ITC confirmed a claim that Motorola is violating one of the company's patents.
The patent in question describes the creation of meeting requests with a scheduling function on mobile devices. the decision by the ITC is the second hit against Android within two days. Earlier this week, the ITC found that HTC violates an Apple patent and issued an injunction against the affected devices beginning in April.
The decision in the Microsoft versus Motorola case is an "initial determination" and may change at the review in the second phase of the process. If the ITC confirms its current decision, Motorola is likely to be prevented from importing its smartphones from their manufacturing facilities in Asia to the United States. Motorola already responded and said that the ITC decision will help the company to figure out ways how to avoid a violation of the Microsoft patent.
However, given the dimension of the smartphone patent battlefield, the finding is just a drop in the bucket. Microsoft currently alleges that Motorola violates 30 Microsoft patents, which is substantial especially in the view that Motorola will soon be part of Google and at the core of Android development.
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Motorola, suckiest mobile company right after HTC.
I think this is the patent European patent office denied because it was "obvious".
what a bs sounding pattent
Why the banhammer from the ITC? Surely licensing is the way forward the same as everyone else?
A good portion of software patents are complete bs. I'm a long time MS user and developer but I am tired of this crap. If Apple wasn't playing the same games I would move to them but I guess my only choice left is Linux to avoid supporting pathetic software companies trying to protect their money bags with inanities.
A good portion of software patents are complete bs. I'm a long time MS user and developer but I am tired of this crap. If Apple wasn't playing the same games I would move to them but I guess my only choice left is Linux to avoid supporting pathetic software companies trying to protect their money bags with inanities.
Apple and MS are pay-for software so getting a living from developing for them can be lucrative, Linux is less lucrative as the user base is so low and people expect everything for free.
How much did Apple pay to Perry and/or Tom's Guide to write such drivel? This is clearly an anti-Motorola advertising campaign wrapped up in a nearly sheer veil of paper-thin pseudo-journalism. The tag line says "...May Be Violating..." which naturally implies that it may not be. The story has no choice but to own up to the fact that the ITC is still in the process of deciding, so why paint Motorola in such an unnecessarily negative light? It's clear that Perry and/or someone at Tom's has an axe to grind with Motorola, and that is sad.
I am DEEPLY disappointed in Tom's Guide for publishing such drivel. I expected more substantive tech news, but perhaps I should adjust my expectations downward from now on.