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Like a Deranged Easter Bunny: Intellectual Property Analysis of Amazon and the Microsoft Android Licensing Program

It's settled. We've figured out Microsoft's costume for this year's Halloween party: Ralphie's pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story.

Why?

Given its licensing program – and recently, its agreement with Quanta, Amazon’s Kindle Fire manufacturer – why not? A look at Microsoft’s IP Licensing page tells us the company “has entered into more than 700 licensing agreements and continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its growing, broad patent and IP portfolio.”

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Splitting the Arrow Through the Axe Head: Is Android Google’s Trojan Horse, Oracle’s Siren Song or will this Odyssey have a new ending

Why? That’s the question we’ve been asking ourselves. Maybe its obvious to most of the capital markets and pundits alike, but… standing upon the proverbial rock from which we survey the “weather” on the financial horizon… we have to wonder why Oracle would sue Google for distributing a free product that is based, in part, on another free product? Why would Oracle put the lifespan of Android (and likely the Java ecosystem as a whole) at risk of near-term death?

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A Foregone Conclusion: Intellectual Property Analysis of Google’s Motorola Mobility Patent Acquisition

Motorola Mobility has a substantial quantity of uncited precedent innovation that could affect the quality of its intellectual property assets, with nine of the eighteen “stars of the portfolio” patents asserted against Apple last year appearing to be impaired. It is apparent that Google’s purchase relies on quantity over quality for its justification, as only half of their stars have much substance.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Google’s IBM Patent Acquisition

In April 2011, Google’s statement of its Nortel auction bid alluded to the latest buzzword of the tech industry: patent trolls. In the past year alone, almost forty Android-related lawsuits have been filed by entities that may be attempting to stifle or monetize on the success of the Android OS – a platform that is activated in more than 550,000 devices each day. While some of these lawsuits specifically target Google, many of them target device-makers utilizing the Android platform.

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Can an Apple a Day Keep The Trolls at Bay? Intellectual Property Analysis of MacroSolve, Inc. and Lodsys, LLC

In anticipation of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference scheduled for June of 2011, attention should be directed to the number of patent infringement lawsuits filed against Apple, Google, and Microsoft application developers in the $10 billion mobile app market.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Microsoft Corporation v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. et. al.

On March 21, 2011, Microsoft filed a lawsuit asserting the Barnes & Noble Nook e-readers infringe five of its patents. In addition to Barnes & Noble, the case names the manufacturers of the device, Inventec and Hon Hai Precision Industry, as well as Hon Hai’s subsidiary Foxconn. Many view this latest suit as a further attack by Microsoft on Google’s Android software, on which the Nook is based. In October 2010, Microsoft brought infringement claims against Motorola, a maker of Android-based smart phones.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Microsoft Corporation v. Motorola Inc.

Microsoft, a 10 year veteran of mobile operating systems has stumbled in the space due to the failure of its Kin phone, forcing a reorganization of its consumer product unit. In a bid to regain lost ground in the mobile phone arena, Microsoft has put its vast resources behind the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. On October 1, 2010, on the eve the of Windows Phone 7 release, Microsoft sued Motorola, claiming that Motorola's mobile phones infringed on nine of its patents.

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