Media News - Thursday, February 23, 2012

Microsoft files EU complaint over Google, Motorola

Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc as it stepped up its battle against Google. Microsoft complained that Motorola Mobility was charging Microsoft too much for use of its patents in Microsoft products a week after the European Commission - the EU's executive arm - and the U.S. Justice Department approved Internet search leader Google's USD 12.5bn acquisition of mobile phone-maker Motorola. Google had pledged to license Motorola patents on fair and reasonable terms if the deal were allowed to go ahead in the week before EU approval for the deal, which is still being reviewed by China's regulators. But Microsoft argued that "Motorola has refused to make its patents available at anything remotely close to a reasonable price" in a blog posted by its deputy general counsel Dave Heiner on Wednesday. As a result Heiner said Microsoft had filed a formal competition law complaint against Motorola Mobility and Google. Heiner had initially named just Motorola Mobility in the blog post but in an update said the complaint also included Google. (Reuters)

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