Post 18- Google Loses Case to Microsoft

Last week, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the ITC gave a preliminary ruling on a Google vs. Microsoft case over U.S. Patent No. 6,246,862 which is about a "sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication device." The imagine above illustrates "a perspective view of a portable communication device employing a sensor controlled user interface."

Google had originally argued that Microsoft's Xbox infringed on this patent, and at first, it was looking good for Google when in the first preliminary ruling for this case, there were in fact 4 infringements, but in June the cases was remanded to ALJ Shaw and he saw no violations.

The author of Foss Patents commented on this, saying that "Google's Motorola hasn't won anything apart from a couple of German H.264 patent rulings it never got to enforce," and he says Google will have to license their SEP portfolio to Microsoft in exchange for a mere percentage of the royalties they had originally demanded.
Article is here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/google-loses-another-one-to-microsoft.html