Google throws before the competition bullying

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Google throws before the competition bullying

Apple, Microsoft and Oracle are said to have acted unfairly: Google General Counsel David Drummond suspects a fraudulent campaign against his company – and predicted the bursting of the bubble patent. In the meanwhile become quite confusing tangle of patents on Google up a gear and lets his chief legal officer of the chain. In a blog post David Drummond throws before the competition from Apple, Microsoft and Oracle, because of the continuing success of an Android- organized and deceptive campaign to stage.

The companies would – as for example in the case of Novell patents – only buy licenses for Google to harm themselves. In this way they could charge for each Android device $ 15 license fee, while Google‘s operating system for free offering. So the prices for Android devices would artificially inflated. Drummond writes about a “patent bubble burst soon” will, as soon as the competition watchdog would be closer to deal with the matter.

Meanwhile, companies are no longer interested in the free competition: “Instead of competing with new functions, or units with us, they fight with legal proceedings.” The strong words certainly do not miss its effect, but is weakened by the new details at least. Microsoft said that it had been in close negotiations for the sale of patents. Brad Smith, the chief legal officer of the Redmond- taught, made via Twitter: “Google claims, we would have bought up their patents in their face reality, we have asked them to work together to provide us with you said no.?..”

Also surfaced e-mail should not strengthen the position of Google. Apparently the people at Google were quite interested in the meantime a patent co-operation with Microsoft. In the “Business Insider” documented e-mail from last fall, Smith tells Google, the search engine giant is currently is not interested in a joint bid. “But we are open to discuss similar opportunities in the future.”

Although the exact extent of the possible similarities is not clear, the roles seem to be war in the patents may not be distributed as clear as the Google wants to believe.