US courts dismiss Motorola's lawsuit to ban the Xbox 360 in the United States
While the Xbox 360 was initially banned in Germany, US courts have overturned the potential of the ban being applied in the United States.
The courts sided with Microsoft who was fighting to keep the system available in the US while Motorola and Google argued it should be pulled due to Microsoft infringing on several patents owned by Motorola. The original case occurred in Germany which was won by Motorola and appealed by Microsoft to the International Trade Commission.
The ITC deferred the decision to the US courts who recently sided with Microsoft in their decision to dismiss the ban. The ban in Germany will also be overturned as a result due to the US courts being given higher status by the ITC from their deferral.
The legal mess between both sides originally started in regards to a piece of video encoding tech found in the Xbox 360 which Motorola claimed was infringing on a patent they own.
Motorola and Google had a feeling they would lose the case in the US which is why earlier they tried to offer a settlement deal with Microsoft who flat out rejected the offer.
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darkhyrulelord
People trying to ban the 360 from the US? Yeah...that's not going to happen. Even if it did, I doubt it will roll over nicely...
Board_games_r_evil
u no, suing for money is one thing, but banning something that a few million people already own is likely going to end badly
theentertainmentguy
I couldn't imagine it actually working in the first place
Tom the Iron Man
I would love to know what patents they're possibly infringing on, and this is ironic too. When the Android phones were first launched in 2008 Microsoft in turn sued Google (and won) because they were infringing on patents they've had for Smartphones that date back to the original lines of Windows phones that predate Android (and it's derivatives) by years. Because of this, in an interesting twist, Microsoft now makes more money off licensing for for it's patents to Google for the Android phones that they do off their own Windows Phones. Funny how all that works out...
firehazard51
I heard it's kinda similar with how Apple patents their products. Amazon pays an arm and a leg for the Kindle Fire to Apple because it uses a patent. That patent I heard is "a table with a touch interface". Yeah, a broad as fuck patent that is more like a monopoly. Apparently Samsung lost a patent lawsuit to Apple with the S3 galaxy phone. It was rectangular with rounded edges. I hope to hell these two cases are skewed and the patents aren't really that broad in scope.
Tom the Iron Man
Actually it goes way beyond that. Apple's lawyers got (and I'm not sure how) internal documents from Samsung that had the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy S3 next to it basically saying "Make this look like this and do all it is, no matter the legal entanglements." I have no sympathy for Samsung for 1) putting that on paper and self-incriminating themselves 2) doing it so shamelessly hoping the profits will outweigh the potential lawsuits. I think the feature you're thinking of for the Kindle Fire is the Pinch and Zoom, and that is something that Apple created before any other smartphone/tablet user did, so credit is where credit is due.