Thursday, October 7, 2010

Microsoft lawsuit against Motorola for mobile phone patent


According to the news PCMAG Microsoft for mobile phone patent lawsuit against Motorola.Microsoft said in a statement now, these patents and synchronize email, calendar, contacts, meeting arrangements and displays signal strength and battery power on the upgrading application software. As a former ally of Motorola's side said that although there is no received the legal documents, but the company is ready to respond to related materials. It seems the Microsoft chose the eve of the Windows Phone7 release is to take action to save Motorola's Windows Mobile system had lost market share.

Microsoft thinks that Motorola nicked its patented methods related to "synchronising email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power".

Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing at Microsoft said that the patents were important to the "smartphone user experience".

"Motorola needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its Android smartphones," he said.

Similar lawsuits have been flying in the Android market almost as soon as the phones came out. Motorola was sued by Blackberry maker Research in Motion. Meanwhile Nokia has sued Apple over the Iphone and Apple has countersued Nokia, along with suing HTC.

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