Victory For Motorola Against Microsoft

Good news for Motorola as they won a patent case against Microsoft.

Mobile phone maker Nokia on Friday in the first patent, patent technology companies fighting for market share in the recent wave of lawsuits against software giant Microsoft a rare victory in a German court. Mannheim Regional Court of Motorola Mobility, Google's programs allow different phones to work in Microsoft patent prejudice ordered. Application development time and costs, allowing developers to write code for each individual phone.

Because it is cheaper and faster than litigation in other jurisdictions, where the German manufacturer of mobile phones, tablet computing devices and their global patent battle between operating systems software has become an important battlegrounds. Germany has won three patent lawsuit against Microsoft, Motorola. As the result of a decision of the German market, there is no dispute smartphone technology.

"This decision was confirmed by Microsoft and Motorola have already been adopted in Germany, does not affect the number of orders," David Howard, Microsoft's associate general counsel, said.

Google's Android mobile platform to expand outside the legal challenges that regression and software development company using a patented, making it the largest acquisition of Motorola Mobility last year, bought $ 12.5 billion. Loss. They can be used from other technology companies have invested billions of dollars in patent portfolio purchase.

Motorola however could not be immediately reached for comment about the case.