Since taking over Motorola Mobility, Google has started to rein in some of the manufacturer's legal adventures. First, it struck a licensing deal with Apple in Germany, then it withdrew an ITC complaint against the company in early October. Now Microsoft is benefiting from its new, seemingly less lawsuit-happy adversary. Moto has decided to pull its WiFi-related patent claims from a complaint against the Xbox 360. That still leaves its H.264 patents on the docket, though, we wouldn't be surprised to see the case disappear completely before the two companies go to trial in December. Microsoft claims it's entitled to a reciprocal license from Google due to an existing agreement between Mountain View and MPEG LA. German courts have already ruled that Motorola's claims regarding its H.264 patents are strong enough to issue injunctions against the Xbox 360 and Windows 7, however the company has been unable to enforce those sales bans due to ongoing investigations in the US.

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Good, Microsoft and Motorola need to drop all current complaints against each other.

Honestly, Motorola never should have had traction with their suit.  Leave it to the Germans though.  I mean, had it not been for the Germans we wouldn't have gone through World War I or World War II, we wouldn't have had the debacle that is the European Union, or Easter, or we wouldn't have farfegnugen. 

And now the whole lawsuit thing.  Clearly we need to keep the Germans on a short leash.  I don't say that as a citizen of the United States, I say that as a citizen of this planet.

Seriously though, never should have happened.

Lol wtf dude? What in godsname has WO I and II and the EU to do with this? And "keep the germans on a short leash", I think the US has caused more wars than germany in the last 100 years so I would keep that radicalism out of the forums...

Sarcastic, or was this serious? You did not just compare WW2 to a lawsuit.

Focus on the middle east if you have a humanitarian problem. Not here and certainly not about Germany.

I really hope that was a huge amount of sarcasm I read there. O.o

Clearly a huge amount of sarcasm, but harder to tell seeing as it was coming from Adinnikianeion's mouth.

It's Adinnieken.  "A dinnie ken."  Or to translate from Scottish to English, "I don't know."  

I am deeply saddened by the intelligence level of the commenting here. That anyone would have need to question the tone or tenor of my statements is just disappointing. I'm not going to bother answering the question because I made it abundantly clear.

Classic! Very well played, sir!