It’s been a while since we’ve heard of a good suing in the tech world. Apple’s crusade has quietened since Samsung and HTC decided to bite back over some of those patent infringement allegations, which saw Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in several countries just weeks after its launch.
Today Apple’s occasional bedfellow Microsoft is taking Google’s recent acquisition Motorola Mobility to court over a number of patent claims over Android-based handsets. The law suit is currently under way in both the US and Europe reportedly to regard “large scale infringement” in areas of email synchronization and battery life display.
Google’s suggested reason for purchasing the Motorola subsidiary was to maintain that Microsoft didn’t get its hands on any of the 18 Android patents the Motorola Mobility holds. Microsoft are clearly unhappy about this buyout of and have suddenly decided that 7 of those 18 patents infringe on intellectual properties owned by Microsoft itself including those featured in wares used for the Motorola’s Backflip, Cliq, Charm, Devour, Droid 2, Droid X, and XT mobile models.
Google’s legal man David Drummond recently took a pop at Microsoft and Apple over patents purchased from the defunct Nortel, Microsoft hit back in some seriously scathing tweets and it seems that the animosity between the two tech-titans is far from being settled.
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