Finally settled in a patent war that Microsoft and Google have been involved for over five years

A number of patent infringement lawsuits over smartphones and game machines that have been held for five years by the IT industry giants such as Microsoft and Google are finally finished at last.

Google, Microsoft Resolve Patent Fight Over Phones, Xbox - Bloomberg Business
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-30/google-microsoft-resolve-global-patent-fight-over-phones-xbox

Google and Microsoft end all patent litigation | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/google-and-microsoft-end-all-patent-litigation/

To Motorola Mobility, which was formerly Google's affiliate, Microsoft had an injunction suing to stop function use as Motorola's smartphone is using certain features related to Microsoft's patent. In response, Google responded to Microsoft's game machine Xbox as unauthorized use of Motorola's proprietary patent, claiming the patent royalties and so on. Both sides were in a "patent war" state in which a total of 20 lawsuits were filed in the courts of the United States and Germany.


However, on September 30, 2015, that patent war, which had the appearance of a conflict of muddy, finally concluded. All patent infringement lawsuits will be withdrawn. In a very short joint statement issued by Microsoft and Google, "Microsoft and Google are pleased to be able to announce that they have reached an agreement on patent disputes.The two companies will withdraw previous patent litigation and further identify We cooperated with each other in patent matters to agree to contribute to the future users' benefit. "


Regarding withdrawal of this patent litigation, details such as cross-licensing agreement, payment of money, etc. are completely unknown. However, Microsoft and Google revealed in a joint statement "Contributing to the interests of users" means that both companies formed Amazon, Netflix, etc.Alliance for Open MediaIt is expected that it will be "the development of next-generation video compression / distribution technology" which is the object of establishment of "Streaming content on smartphones and PC will be strongly evolved and developed in the future.