After Apple v. HTC, Oracle v. Google, and Paul Allen v. the world, we've got a 4th:
Microsoft v. Motorola: http://mashable.com/2010/10/01/microsoft-sues-motorola-over-android/ My gut instinct goes with: Oh, sure, microsoft emulates everything successful companies do and screws it up, I'm sure this'll be no different, but that's perhaps a bit unfair; I haven't checked into the matters of the case. It is a patent suit, though. At least they did have the common decency (something Oracle lacked) to state which parts of motorola's android phones are in breach of their patents. They didn't merely toss a bunch of patents in a suit and claim infringement without stating which parts infringed. Which is what patent trolls usually do (and what Oracle did v. Google, which really didn't help their case much - though keep in mind Oracle didn't go full troll mode, a real troll would have filed in East Texas, not California). Microsoft filed in "The Western District of Washington". As far as I know this is not a court particularly well known to give big paydays to patent trolls, so if that's true that would be another kindness and a sign microsoft is at least trying to make it too obvious. Then again, neither Microsoft (Seattle) nor Motorola (Illinois) are based there so why that court? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
