Microsoft’s patent-infringement lawsuit against Barnes & Noble and its Nook e-readers is over “trivial” features and is part of a proxy war against Google Android, the bookseller says.
“Indeed, Microsoft is misusing these patents as part of a scheme to try to eliminate or marginalize the competition to its own Windows Phone 7 mobile device operating system posed by the open source Android operating system and other open source operating systems,” B&N said in a court filing Monday. “Microsoft’s conduct directly harms both competition for and consumers of eReaders, smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile electronic devices, and renders Microsoft’s patents unenforceable.”
Microsoft sued B&N and two Nook manufacturers (Foxconn and Inventec) last month over five patents the software giant says are being violated. The technology in question involves tabbed window navigation, Web-page loading and text selection on B&N’s Nook e-reader and Nook Color tablet.
In a strongly worded court filing, B&N denied all of Microsoft’s allegations, questioned the validity of Microsoft’s patents and demanded a jury trial in the federal case. It seems B&N is standing up to Microsoft, which has admitted its preferred venue for fighting Android is the courtroom.
Read more: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/04/27/barnes-noble-microsoft-lawsuit-is-scheme-to-kill-google-android/
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