Barnes & Noble: Microsoft using patents to cripple Android competition

Posted by BernardSwiss on Nov 9, 2011 9:58 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright
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The book retailer claims also that the fees Microsoft was demanding were equal to or greater than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone, even though the patents covered only "trivial and non-essential design elements" of the Android user interface. It also noted that there is only one patent common to the the five patents it is being sued over and the six that Microsoft was offering to license.

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