The groups agree on cooperation in several patented techniques and want to fight patent trolls better.
One of the most violent conflicts in the patent IT industry has been completed, according to an agency report: Microsoft and Google designed around 20 lawsuits in the USA and Germany at.
Back and forth
Microsoft had accused Google, the Android smart phone system use patented technologies from Microsoft, without paying appropriate Lizenzegebühren. The former Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility patents in turn led into the field, which is part of recognized standards for wireless networks (WLAN) and video compression (H.264) are. Motorola had demanded from Microsoft that uses the techniques in its hardware and software products, licensing fees in the amount of 2.25 percent of the product price.
Microsoft saw it as an infringement of the industry's accepted practice that requires the licensor to grant licenses for standard relevant patents on reasonable terms (FRAND "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory"). The Windows Group filed suit against Motorola in 2010 for violations against these
rules. Motorola countered with the accusation of patent infringement and attempted sales bans on devices such as the Xbox enforce.
Cooperation
Google acquired Motorola and in 2012 had sold to the PC maker Lenovo in the past year, but kept largely the patent arsenal. Google and Microsoft would now cooperate with some patent issues, the financial agency Bloomberg reported, citing the company. Among other things, they wanted to cooperate for video compression in developing a royalty-free technology.
Google already working on it together with the streaming service Netflix and Amazon-operators. In addition, the two companies intend to jointly support a legal framework, the so-called patent trolls makes life more difficult. Patent trolls are called companies whose business model is to buy up patents and thus to demand money from business, to use the appropriate technologies.
One of the most violent conflicts in the patent IT industry has been completed, according to an agency report: Microsoft and Google designed around 20 lawsuits in the USA and Germany at.
Back and forth
Microsoft had accused Google, the Android smart phone system use patented technologies from Microsoft, without paying appropriate Lizenzegebühren. The former Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility patents in turn led into the field, which is part of recognized standards for wireless networks (WLAN) and video compression (H.264) are. Motorola had demanded from Microsoft that uses the techniques in its hardware and software products, licensing fees in the amount of 2.25 percent of the product price.
Microsoft saw it as an infringement of the industry's accepted practice that requires the licensor to grant licenses for standard relevant patents on reasonable terms (FRAND "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory"). The Windows Group filed suit against Motorola in 2010 for violations against these
rules. Motorola countered with the accusation of patent infringement and attempted sales bans on devices such as the Xbox enforce.
Cooperation
Google acquired Motorola and in 2012 had sold to the PC maker Lenovo in the past year, but kept largely the patent arsenal. Google and Microsoft would now cooperate with some patent issues, the financial agency Bloomberg reported, citing the company. Among other things, they wanted to cooperate for video compression in developing a royalty-free technology.
Google already working on it together with the streaming service Netflix and Amazon-operators. In addition, the two companies intend to jointly support a legal framework, the so-called patent trolls makes life more difficult. Patent trolls are called companies whose business model is to buy up patents and thus to demand money from business, to use the appropriate technologies.
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