A trial that starts tomorrow morning in federal court in Seattle will focus on how much Motorola Mobility can reasonably charge Microsoft for a set of patents considered essential to… Read More
[Updated below with Motorola statement] Microsoft’s top lawyer this morning called on Google to “engage in serious discussions” toward a wide-ranging patent licensing deal that would end the thicket of… Read More
It’s not often that Congress argues in favor of video game consoles, but it appears all bets are off when the issue is patents. Members of the U.S. House of… Read More
Google said Thursday that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft and Nokia in Europe, the latest move in a high-stakes dispute among the companies over patents. The complaint… Read More
Microsoft’s 4GB and 250GB Xbox 360 game consoles would be banned from import into the U.S. under a recommendation issued by an administrative law judge for the International Trade Commission.… Read More
Google this morning became a hardware company — completing its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and promptly naming a new CEO for the company, existing Google executive Dennis Woodside. Woodside… Read More
After listening to three hours of arguments from Microsoft and Motorola in a patent dispute today, a federal judge in Seattle deferred his rulings on the motions before him but… Read More
A court hearing set for today in Seattle will focus on a dispute between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility, potentially impacting Microsoft’s ability to sell the Xbox 360 and Windows 7… Read More
Antitrust regulators in Europe and the United States gave clearance last month to Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, but the deal still hasn’t closed. So what’s the… Read More
Updated with Google’s statement below. Microsoft has filed a formal competition complaint against Motorola Mobility in Europe, saying that Motorola is seeking unreasonable royalties for patents needed to implement WiFi… Read More
Google’s proposed acquisition of mobile phone giant Motorola won approval from the European Commission today, leaving the U.S. Justice Department as the last major hurdle for the $12.5 billion deal.… Read More
The year was 1998. Bill Clinton was president, the original PlayStation was going head-to-head with the Nintendo 64, and a group of engineers from Microsoft’s Windows CE team filed a… Read More
Motorola has been sued for patent infringement by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold — marking the latest in a series of intellectual… Read More
Google continues to gobble up patents in the mobile arena, a defensive move to ward off assaults from Apple and Microsoft which are attacking the search giant’s Android platform. Bloomberg… Read More
“Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better products.” – Google’s Eric Schmidt, speaking about the company’s Motorola… Read More
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, gave his take on the company’s Motorola acquisition — and the state of the U.S. patent system — as part of his appearance on stage… Read More
News and notes from the Microsoft beat … Microsoft and Motorola are squaring off starting today in front of the International Trade Commission — one of the key battlegrounds in… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap a wild week in the technology world — including Google’s plan to acquire Motorola, and HP’s plan to spin… Read More
Companies sometimes do odd things in response to their competitors, but Google’s $12.5 billion agreement to acquire Motorola ranks up there with some of the most unusual moves we’ve ever… Read More