Thursday, September 20, 2012

Microsoft wins German ban on Motorola devices



In another unwelcome development for Android OEMs, a German court has slapped the Google (GOOG)-owned Motorola with a sales ban for allegedly infringing upon patents held by Microsoft (MSFT). AllThingsD reports that the court banned a number of Motorola smartphones and tablets for infringing a patent that details "a method and system for receiving user input data into a computer system having a graphical windowing environment." To make things worse, Microsoft is alleging that the patent in question covers a feature that is a core part of Android and can't be easily designed around. Google has not yet appealed the verdict, AllThingsD says, but it likely will.

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