Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android Patent ViolationsMicrosoft Sues Motorola Over Android Patent Violations

Late last week Microsoft filed a patent infringement suit in federal court in Washington state. The suit alleges that Motorola is violating nine Microsoft patents in its Android implementation. Apple is suing HTC over Android and Oracle is suing Google directly. Android is not only popular with consumers, but lawyers too.Microsoft issued a press release detailing the action on Friday. Corporate VP and deputy general council of Intellectual Property and Licensing (apparently some Microsoft products aren't the only things with unwieldy titles) issued a statement that includes the following:

Additional details weren't available and according to the Wall Street Journal, Motorola hasn't even seen the complaint yet. It looks like much if it surrounds how Motorola has implemented its cloud sync feature which allows it to synchronize with your Google content or your corporate Exchange server via Exchange ActiveSync. The latter is a service that Microsoft has licensed to a number of companies, including Google, Palm/HP and Nokia for use on their phones. It isn't free though. Perhaps Motorola tried to get out of licensing the product and write their own connection to Exchange. We'll have to wait for the complaint to become public to see the details.