"Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no," Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, tweeted Wednesday night.
Smith's tweet followed by several hours a blog from Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, who described Microsoft as one of a group of companies that are mounting a "hostile,organized campaign against Android."
Drummond charged that Microsoft, Apple and others had banded together to acquire 600 patents from Nortel for $4.5 billion in an anti-competitive move against Android.
In an escalation of Android patent battles, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join Microsoft in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused.
"Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no," Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, tweeted Wednesday night.
Smith's tweet followed by several hours a blog from Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, who described Microsoft as one of a group of companies that are mounting a "hostile,organized campaign against Android."
Drummond charged that Microsoft, Apple and others had banded together to acquire 600 patents from Nortel for $4.5 billion in an anti-competitive move against Android.
computerworld
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