The U.s. International Trade Commission has ruled that Motorola’s patent from Microsoft has violated in its products. It is the second decision in a short time that negative extract for Googles Android operating system.
According to the ITC makes Motorola infringed on four claims mentioned in the patent, number 6,370,566, that is in the hands of Microsoft. The patent describes a technique for agendafunctionaliteit on a smartphone. In the complaint, Microsoft had several patents, but the ITC ruled that Motorola, there is no infringement. It is a provisional judgement, making it possible that the American organization at a later stage, a sales ban for Motorola phones pronunciation.
Recently, the ITC that HTC infringes on a patent of Apple, and spoke, therefore, a sales ban, that on april 19, next year starts. Although HTC a technique works to the infringing element in its Android smartphones to remove, it seems Google’s mobile operating system a major defeat they have suffered; Apple would be with a patent, other manufacturers can sue.
In the case of Motorola there is still a penalty to be imposed, but it is quite possible that here also a sales ban will be imposed. In addition, it is also likely that Motorola will try to find the offending element from his smartphone to remove.
Previously, in Germany the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet with Android already prohibited, that the Korean manufacturer decided to make a revised model to sell. Although Apple and Microsoft are the main opponents of Google’s Android, there are more companies that lawsuits alleging; recently served British Telecom still has a suit against Google for patentschending in Android and other services.