Microsoft angrily told Samsung: for Android, for money

Microsoft announced today that it had filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the U.S. District Court in southern New York August 1 local time, as the South Korean giants violated the Android patent licensing agreement between the two sides. Microsoft said it had been communicating with Samsung for several months before, but the out-of-court settlement had been ineffective and had to resort to court. Microsoft Deputy Legal Advisor David Howard explained that Samsung believes that after Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia mobile phone business, both sides of the patent contract has been invalid, do not need to pay Microsoft royalties. He said: "We never easily litigate, especially for partners who have worked closely together for many years." Unfortunately, sometimes partners disagree. We spent months trying to reconcile, but Samsung made it clear in a series of emails and discussions that there were fundamental differences before each other. Microsoft has not disclosed how much compensation it hopes to get, but every year Microsoft can get about 2 billion dollars from companies such as Samsung and HTC, with Android patents. Samsung signed a patent cross licensing agreement with Microsoft in 2011. Samsung shipped 82 million Android smartphones, which soared to 314 million in two years, becoming a well-deserved Android boss, and the need to pay Microsoft a more lucrative patent fee. In the case of Microsoft, Samsung said it would look carefully at the pleadings and then decide on a suitable response.