Microsoft Seeks Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing, has made some statements that indicate Microsoft has fired legal shots against Foxconn, Inventec, Barnes & Noble who are associated with manufacturing of Nook color.

According to Microsoft these companies have broken the patent regulations in which some of the patents are owned by the corporate Microsoft who wants profit off those patents. Mr Gutierrez has made further claims that these companies have refused to fullfill the licensing condition and while he has been trying to reach them in regards to the licensing agreements he admits that he was quite unsuccessful in such endeavor. So Microsoft corporation had no other way and decided to pursue legal action against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec.

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