The book chain Barnes & Noble wants an investigation of Microsoft, because the aces on licentiegeld of competitors. Many manufacturers pay royalties to Microsoft for patents to be allowed to use for their Android devices.
That writes the book chain in a letter to the U.s. department of justice, which Bloomberg has realized. Barnes & Noble wants to know if Microsoft with the questions of licentiegeld to Android manufacturers trying to create a form of monopoly on the smartphone market. The company from Redmond performs litigation due to patentschending against manufacturers who are not licensed on its patents. Therefore, Microsoft’s trying the competition out of the market by the costs to competitors to increase, according to the book chain.
Microsoft has Barnes & Noble sued for violating five patents with its Nook devices, which are Android-based. Also recently Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Motorola. Google recently announced Motorola to want to take over, mainly because of the patentportfolio of the company. In this way, the internetgigant the Android operating system to better protect against patent claims.
Microsoft has indicated that approximately half of the Android-makers licentiegeld to receive. In addition to reportedly large manufacturers, such as HTC and Samsung. Recently it became known that Huawei is there possible to connect.