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Horacio Gutierrez 
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Motorola Mobility to Microsoft: We Demand a Royalty Recount
Google and Microsoft beg to differ.
Microsoft Continues Android Legal Assault, Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook
As part of a continued legal assault on Android, Microsoft sued the bookseller and two of its contract manufacturers, alleging the Nook infringes on Microsoft patents.
Motorola Announces Inevitable Microsoft Countersuit
On Tuesday Microsoft sued Motorola, accusing it of charging excessive royalties on some patent licenses Redmond uses in the Xbox. Now Motorola has responded in kind.
Microsoft Tries to Short-Circuit Android With Motorola Suit
An interesting preface to the October launch of Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system and the trio of devices that will run it. The company today filed suit against Motorola, alleging several of its Android smartphones infringe on its patents.
Patent Troll/Alley Thug Pleased With Salesforce.com Patent Suit Settlement
All that bluster and bravado and in the end, Salesforce.com chose to settle its patent dispute with Microsoft rather than go to the mattresses. On Wednesday afternoon the two companies said they had resolved the patent-infringement battle that prompted Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff to brand Microsoft a “patent troll” and “alley thug.”
Get ‘em, Boies: Salesforce Countersues Microsoft
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft is a patent troll. Looks like it takes one to know one. On Thursday, the company answered Microsoft’s charges of patent infringement with patent-infringement charges of its own.
Salesforce.com Honored With Rare Microsoft Patent-Infringement Suit
In a January Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Salesforce.com listed among its risk factors “a communication from a large technology company alleging that we were infringing upon some of their patents.” The company didn’t identify the source of that communication or the extent of its allegations, only that the two were in discussions and no litigation had yet been filed. Well, on Tuesday litigation was filed–by Microsoft.
We’d Rather Be Collecting Royalties On Windows Phones, But Hey, We’re Enjoying the Irony
Android may be Open, but evidently it’s not quite “free.” According to Microsoft, smartphones running Google’s mobile OS infringe its patents and companies who use it owe it royalties. Late Tuesday night the company issued a statement announcing a patent licensing deal with HTC that provides the Taiwanese cell phone “broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC ’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform.”