Blog 26: Continued: Google’s Defeats in Germany; Few Victories Elsewhere

The Mannheim Regional in German rejected Google’s attempt to enforce an injunction against Microsoft and its email system.

Sad Android 

Google was expecting $12.5 billion in the next four years or 3 billion annually from Microsoft on two SEP patent infringements, with video codec and Wi-Fi.  However, the court ruled that Google should only receive 1.8 million annually until the patent expires, which will not even cover the lawyer fees.   

German court lifts the injunction on Apple’s over Google’s automatic notification patent that affects Apple’s emails service. While also upholding a Microsoft injunction for a multi-part text messaging interface, which is forcing companies using Android to license this patent from Microsoft.

These infringement lawsuits have proven that Android is not “free” like Google claims they are. Many companies using the Android system will have to license patents in order to use it.

With all this bad news this month for Google we have to leave with some good news. So here are some court victories.

HTC helped Google and Samsung defeat in the Mannheim Regional Court a previous injunction from Apple’s 3G SEP patent.

German court dismissed Nokia’s lawsuit on HTC’s Google play, where Google acted as an intervener. However, this is only delaying the inevitable, because android devices will need to license this patent from Nokia soon.

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