Microsoft v. Motorola battlemap updated: 51 patents-in-suit, complaints filed in 7 different courts
This week, a German court will hold hearings on three Microsoft patent lawsuits against Motorola, and an Administrative Law Judge of the ITC plans to make his initial determination with respect to 7 of the 26 patents Microsoft is presently asserting against Motorola.
I have updated my battlemap to show just how big this dispute has become (click to enlarge):
The image above shows the current state of affairs. It's the title page of a 26-page PDF that contains a slideshow that walks you through the escalation of this conflict in 17 steps, and furthermore contains 8 pages of reference lists that show the 53 patents the parties are asserting against each other:
MicrosoftVsMotorola_11.12.11Microsoft is also suing Barnes & Noble over five patents. Only one of those five patents overlaps with the 26 patents that are being asserted against Motorola.
