Microsoft sued Nook and Nook Color over some patents infringed because they used the Android operating system in the Nook and Nook Color. Microsoft claimed the Nook line of e-readers infringe five Microsoft patents, concerning the way they display retrieved images, show the status of downloaded material on a small screen, edit electronic documents and render annotations.One of Android’s biggest advantages is that it free of cost. A free operating system will outsell the paid version if the later is not superior enough.people who make Android won’t charge for it but Companies like Microsoft wants to milk money.
Nook and Nook Color is not ready to pay either they counter sued Microsoft by telling "Microsoft has asserted patents that extend only to non-essential design features, but uses these patents to demand that every manufacturer of an Android-based mobile device take a license from Microsoft and pay exorbitant licensing fees or face expensive patent infringement litigation. This do not have a lawful scope sufficient to control the Android Operating System and Microsoft’s misuse these patents directly to harms all eReaders, smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile electronic devices.Microsoft did not invent, research, develop the Android Operating System but seeks to dominate something it did not invent. Microsoft has taken definite steps towards making competing operating systems such as the Android unusable and unattractive to both consumers and device manufacturers through exorbitant license fees and absurd licensing restrictions that bear no relation to the scope and subject matter of its own patents."
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