Awesome a man with answers!

Presumably MS sided with H.264 before Google decided to buy Motorola to leverage themselves against forthcoming litigation against MS infringements.

Is this the first time G/M have chased anyone for compensation for using this? They must be licking their lips thinking that if this passes they can chase Sony, Nintendo, Apple, Samsung etc. and then all the streaming services I assume would be liable as well e.g. Netflix. 

What a petty squabble, if this goes through they should really consider themselves crappers.

Its just cheaper for MS to buy them out and sell them piece by piece for their insolence! :P

This is all wrong. Microsoft owns Active Sync and is suing Motorola Mobility. Motorola/Google is suing Microsoft for video compression and wifi patents. This is how crap gets into actual news. CVG is wrong too for writing the wrong news.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-22/google-jeremy-lin-anheuser-busch-intellectual-property

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/googlemotorola-offer-h264-patent-settlement-microsoft-chuckles/3660

No, Apple and Motorola have also locked horns on the same issue.  Motorola is attempting to license a FRAND patent at 2.25% of the unit price, rather than at a nominal per unit price because Apple requested they license patents that they own.

It's a very real possibility if Microsoft doesn't settle, true. But that isn't going to happen, that's like saying it's a very real possibility it will be cold tomorrow if the sun vanishes from the sky. The important bit is how likely MS won't settle and how likely it will be cold tomorrow because there is no sun. By using the "if this happens then that happens" sentence structure it takes away the actual calculation of what might or might not happen and is deceptive in language. (not that you were trying to, I'm not implying that).

The question is not, "How likely is it that the Xbox 360 will be banned from sale?", the real question is "How likely is it that MS won't settle before that will happen?".

Same question, but I suspect hardly anyone will answer negative to the second, whereas a fair few intelligent people who aren't thinking a bit deeper will actually answer positive to the first.

Motorola's demands are completely unreasonable to expect the return they are on their patent and any judge will agree with that and simply award a much lower figure - if it goes that far - which it won't. It will be hammered out and an agreement made at the 11th hour as that's how these things work in my opinion.

In fact I'm not just referring to this particular case, but also to all the other countless ones before it. And all the countless ones that will happen after this one, unless the US economy gets so horribly burnt by its own fatherland's laws to persuade politician to change them, at last.

The arrogance! But it's true, it would be bad for the industry.

what sort of moron wrote this article? Activesync is microsoft tech that motorola is infringing on, not the other way around.

If it happens (which actually seems like a possibility now, a slim one, though), then it's all over.