Cannot just give away a mobile OS for free, it appears.
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Google just suffered a strategically very important defeat at the Munich I Regional Court
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Judge Dr. Guntz explained that "the Android operating system" infringes the invention protected by claim 23 of EP1040406 on a "soft input panel system and method".
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Absent a stay, it may have to temporarily pull out of the German market or do what Microsoft has been proposing to Motorola for years: take a royalty-bearing license to the industry's leading operating system patent portfolio.
Except for Motorola, all other leading Android device makers are already paying for a patent license from Microsoft and don't have to worry about the possibility of this patent being enforced against them.
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Today's ruling is further validation of Microsoft's claim that Android infringes many of its patents.
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http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/09/m...njunction.html