Google executive that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) and other IT industry giants are using patents “as a weapon” to slow the growth of Google’s Android mobile operating system has set off a tit-for-tat row between Google and Microsoft that shows no signs of subsiding.
The squabble has put a spotlight on the increasing use of technology patents by IT vendors to gain and maintain a competitive advantage.
The dispute began Wednesday when David Drummond, Google vice president and chief legal officer, posted a blog entitled “When Patents Attack Android” in which he argued that competitors, led by Microsoft and Apple, have banded together in “a hostile, organized campaign against Android” that’s being “waged through bogus patents.”
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