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For a $1,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50. That is 2.25%. According to reports, that is roughly the royalty percentage

by gvb 15y ago

For a $1,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50. That is 2.25%. According to reports, that is roughly the royalty percentage Microsoft is getting from Android phone sellers ($5 to $15 per phone $15/$500 = 3%). http://www.mobiledia.com/news/107165.html http://www.mobiledia.com/news/107165.html

kstenerud 15y ago
Also note the author of the OP article: Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft
shrikant 15y ago
Linked within that page is also this: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/104161.html http://www.mobiledia.com/news/104161.html Microsoft Wants to Ban Motorola Phones in U.S. "Motorola is infringing our patents and we are confident that the ITC will rule in our favor," said David Howard, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for litigation. "We are vigorously defending ourselves against Microsoft's patent attack business strategy," said Motorola in a responding statement. "We have also brought legal actions of our own in the U.S. and in Europe to address Microsoft's large scale of infringement of Motorola Mobility's patents." He who lives by the sword...
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  I didn't even know that. So they wanted to ban Motorola's products from US, and they complain about Motorola wanting to "only" charge them a little too much? Wow. If I were them I'd be thankful Motorola didn't adopt their own tactic.
  - mbrubeck 15y ago
    Motorola and Microsoft are using the same tactics. Both are trying to get injunctions against alleged infringing products: "In legal proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft take its products off the market, or else remove their standards-based ability to play video and connect wirelessly." This is a standard move in these patent battles; the same thing happened in the various Apple/Samsung/etc. cases of the past year. I presume the threat of lost sales is meant to motivate the other party to settle quickly (i.e., pay up!).
zmmmmm 15y ago
Indeed. It makes me wonder if this is exactly the outcome Motorola wants - a precedent set that indicates a "reasonable" value for tiny incremental features on a device. Then they can turn around and present that as evidence that Microsoft's demands on Android phones are wholly unreasonable when MS tries to ask Motorola for roylaties on Android.

by gvb 15y ago

kstenerud 15y ago

Also note the author of the OP article: Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft

shrikant 15y ago

Linked within that page is also this: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/104161.html http://www.mobiledia.com/news/104161.html Microsoft Wants to Ban Motorola Phones in U.S. "Motorola is infringing our patents and we are confident that the ITC will rule in our favor," said David Howard, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for litigation. "We are vigorously defending ourselves against Microsoft's patent attack business strategy," said Motorola in a responding statement. "We have also brought legal actions of our own in the U.S. and in Europe to address Microsoft's large scale of infringement of Motorola Mobility's patents." He who lives by the sword...

nextparadigms 15y ago
I didn't even know that. So they wanted to ban Motorola's products from US, and they complain about Motorola wanting to "only" charge them a little too much? Wow. If I were them I'd be thankful Motorola didn't adopt their own tactic.
- mbrubeck 15y ago
  Motorola and Microsoft are using the same tactics. Both are trying to get injunctions against alleged infringing products: "In legal proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft take its products off the market, or else remove their standards-based ability to play video and connect wirelessly." This is a standard move in these patent battles; the same thing happened in the various Apple/Samsung/etc. cases of the past year. I presume the threat of lost sales is meant to motivate the other party to settle quickly (i.e., pay up!).

zmmmmm 15y ago

Indeed. It makes me wonder if this is exactly the outcome Motorola wants - a precedent set that indicates a "reasonable" value for tiny incremental features on a device. Then they can turn around and present that as evidence that Microsoft's demands on Android phones are wholly unreasonable when MS tries to ask Motorola for roylaties on Android.