If you thought the patient battles were only with Apple think again. Motorola won a patient case in Germany against Microsoft. A judge believes that Motorola has not infringed on an app-related patent held by Redmond.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company’s associate general counsel told Reuters that this decision, out of Mannheim, does not affect the various injunctions Microsoft has already won against Motorola in Germany.
Just last month, for example, a Munich court found that Motorola has infringed uponMicrosoft patents, and granted Redmond an injunction against the offending products.
In July, a German judge found that Motorola’s Android-based devices infringe on a Microsoft-held File Allocation Table (FAT) patent. Back in May, meanwhile, a Munich court ruled that Android-based Motorola devices infringe on a Microsoft messaging patent.
In the U.S., the International Trade Commission (ITC) in May ordered an import ban on Android-based Motorola devices that infringe on a Microsoft-held patent. That went into effect in July, but the Google-owned Motorola said it has come up with a workaround to address the patent violation that prompted the ban.
[pcmag]
