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Huawei is in Android patent talks with Microsoft
CHINESE HARDWARE FIRM Huawei is in talks with Microsoft about patent licences for Android.
Microsoft has its hooks into the vendors of Android smartphones and does pretty well out of the patent licensing agreements it has signed with a number of them.
Recent licensees include Samsung and Quanta and it's likely that next the Redmond firm will announce that it has Huawei as a 'partner' as well. Huawei's cheif marketing officer Victor Xu said at a press briefing last night that discussions are "in progress", which suggests that soon Microsoft will announce another licensing agreement.
Microsoft might have its own mobile phone operating system that it recently released on Nokia phones with a bit of a splash, but the firm does a good business on Android too, and makes almost $500m a year out of its licences, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.
Microsoft has regularly defended its licences that cover both Android and the Google Chrome operating system, but it is light on the patent details and characterises its claims, in public at least, as "broad coverage". µ
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Why NOT RE-INVOLVE Xerox in this. Get Xerox ( and the spin off Parc ) to submit rights to use THEIR original IP Better still BUY the Rights / Patents. off of XEROX / PARC!! Apple & MS stole them. That is HISTORY and Irrefutable. OR SUBMIT the WHOLE THING to the WORLD COURT...THE HAGUE. SERIOUSLY!! Only THIS TIME GOOGLE you had BETTER BE 1ST IN LINE. Do NOT SIT BY SUCKING YOUR THUMB and wondering " WHAT ARE ALL THE FUNNY MEN IN MS & APPLE SUITS RUNNING BETWEEN XEROX AND THE HAGUE doing?" YOU SLEEP THIS ONE TRIPLE SHAME ON YOU...
Please Google:
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How Much IBM Can Get Away with is the Responsibility of the Media
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If you can't innovate, you litigate.
MS fell of the train when it came to WinCE and were years behind the opposition.
What better way to slow everyone down and make some money then litigation. Don't actually accurately or openly disclose what is allegedly infringed and that way you can run the scan over and over. $$$$$
How lucky is it that the people upon whose shoulders Microsoft is standing were not as small minded and tight fisted and anticompetitive as Microsoft themselves. (like XeroX PARC for example)