Samsung takes Android patent license from Microsoft rather than wait for Motorola

Samsung takes Android patent license from Microsoft rather than wait for Motorola

Microsoft just announced a patent license agreement with Samsung, under which "Microsoft will receive royalties for Samsung’s mobile phones and tablets running Android". This is the most important Android-related intellectual property deal in its own right, and even more significant against the background of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. If Samsung truly believed that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the Android ecosystem at large, it would have waited until that deal is closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft. But Samsung probably knows it can't rely on Google. It decided to address Android's intellectual property issues on its own.

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