Barnes & Noble: Microsoft Thirst in dominating Android
As a leading company on computer and information technology, has always shown its fangs in an attempt to defend against intellectual property patent infringement
Besides selling books in the conventional form, this company also sells books in digital form along with Barnes & Noble Nook Color, an eReader based on Android, an operating system that also used in smartphones and tablets
Microsoft demanding Barnes & Noble to pay the royalty in using the Android operating system for the Nook
Such dispute happened regarding payment of royalties on the patents of computer technology between Barnes & Noble i s a booksellers company with assets of $ 2.99 billion
In its lawsuit on March 21, Horacio Gutierrez, ‘s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual property and licensing, said that the Android platform have violated some Microsoft patents
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