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Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola with the International Trade Commission in the US District Court for the Western Disrtict of Washington, for infringing on nine patents held by the software giant in its Android-based smart phones.  Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing said the patents relate to a range of functionality embodied in Motorola’s Android smartphone devices “essential to the smartphone user experience,” and include synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power.Media reports expressed surprise that most lawsuits against Android based smart phones target manufacturers rather than Google, the make of the mobile operating system. Oracle is the only one to have directly targeted Google with a lawsuit over Android’s alleged infringement of Java-related intellectual property that it acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. A number of reports in the media said Microsoft’s actions were actually aimed at putting a spoke in the wheel of the rising popularity of Android, which is a direct competitor to its Windows 7 mobile operating system. For its part, Motorola released the Droid Pro, promoting it as "the first Android-based smartphone optimized for business use," as it features an in-built keyboard, email that boasts corporate level security, and somewhat ironically, Microsoft’s popular productivity software such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The product slots into a niche dominated by Canadian smart phone maker Research In Motion (RIM), which largely dominates the segment. |
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