Google accuses competitors of conspiring against Android

Google accuses Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other competitors of carrying out an organized campaign against Android using fictitious patents. About this in the official blog of Google wrote the senior vice president and director of legal affairs of the company David Drummond.

Drummond brought a number of evidence of this “organized campaign” - Apple and Microsoft teamed up to acquire old Novell and Nortel patents so that Google wouldn't get them, Microsoft demands $ 15 from each Android device, and lawsuits against Barnes & Noble, HTC , Motorola and Samsung.

According to Drummond, these efforts are reduced to the introduction of a "tax" that will make Android devices more expensive for consumers and manufacturers, and "instead of competing by creating new functions or devices, they are fighting in the courts." He stated that "this anti-competitive strategy also makes the value of patents significantly higher than their real value."
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He ends up being inspired by the Ministry of Justice’s investigation into the aforementioned Novell and Nortel patents.

But the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith responded quickly with a tweet :

Google says we bought Novell patents so that Google wouldn't get them. Indeed? We asked them to take part in the auction with us. They said no.

Frank Shaw, responsible for corporate communications at Microsoft, tweeted a screenshot of a letter from Kent Walker (General Counsel of Google), which confirms this.

via Engadget