Microsoft, IBM Want to Seal Patents Agreements With Samsung 126
sfcrazy writes "The court battle between Apple and Samsung has created the possibility of disclosing the cross patent agreement between Microsoft and Samsung. Microsoft is suddenly scared and has filed a motion asking the court to seal the cross license agreement. I would like to remind that the Judge has asked both parties to make all the filings in this dispute available to the public for free."
And on Monday, IBM filed for a restraining order to prevent Reuters from publishing their agreement with Samsung as well.
Re:Microsoft is suddenly scared? (Score:4, Funny)
oh but nokia's been xlicensing traditionally, since that was the old way mobile companies worked and kept new entrants from coming. ms/nokia and apple/nokia and ms/apple full cross licensing deals kind of step on that though.
that they don't want the deals public is a bit shitty for the common stockholder though.
the real reason I suspect MS wanting to seal the documents is that they state that when you're big enough you can get MS licenses for android in exchange of giving WP phones a shot - along with patent licenses to whatever both platforms need.
Makes a change from their CEO scaring us (Score:5, Funny)
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