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Because they were not former Windows Mobile license holders. This seems like a ploy to get former a license holder to continue being a license holder.

• brown9-2 16y ago
  Is this a common big business practice? Suing your former partners so they'll do business with you again in the future? Seems like a poor form of courtship.
  • kevingadd 16y ago
    I could see the line of thought being something like 'well, clearly you licensed our IP just long enough to learn our secrets, then stopped paying for the license and used those secrets in your Android product'.
    • hga 16y ago
      That would be a trade secret lawsuit, though. E.g. akin to a Qualcomm licensee who had gotten both the rights to use their patented CDMA technology plus the trade secrets of their special sauce on radio power management. If this is just on the basis of patents then in theory the information is all in the public domain (which is what patents are supposed to be all about) and the lawsuit is over the right to use it.
• glhaynes 16y ago
  And Apple has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft...