February 23, 2012

Motorola and Google sued by Microsoft

Microsoft, through the official blog announced they had filed lawsuit for Motorola Mobility and Google to the European Commission. At the post who written by Microsoft vice president, Dave Heiner claims that Microsoft filed this complaint because Motorola does not offer its patent regarding watching web video with reasonable terms to other companies who want to use it.

Whereas, Microsoft claims that Motorola and other companies that hold patents for video standard, promises to provide a patent with a fair deal.

In the postings, Heiner wrote:''Motorola broke their promise. Motorola is on its way to use standard patents that are essential to murder video on the web, and Google as the new owner of the Motorola do not look want to changing the course.''

Microsoft said that Motorola does not offer their patents fairly. For example, from a laptop valued U.S. $ 1000, Motorola  demanded patent royalty for $ 22.5 per laptop for 50 patents owned in terms of standard video.

Microsoft claims that,  other 29 companies including them, holding a total of more than 2300 patents, which required to run the video standard only asks 2 cents per laptop for$ 1000.

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