Motorola has lost a key ruling in Germany over its Android-based devices.
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A German court has found Motorola Mobility in violation of a Microsoft patent, according to a new report.
Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court today ruled that Motorola's Android-based devices are violating a File Allocation Table (FAT) patent related to "a common name space for long and short filenames," according to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, who first reported on the case.
According to Mueller, who has aided Microsoft in intellectual property matters in the past, the software giant can enforce an injunction against Motorola's infringing devices after posting a 10 million euro bond. In addition, Judge Voss will allow Microsoft to collect damages and recall all infringing products.
FAT is a file system that has been in place for years. Microsoft used the FAT standard in a host of its operating systems, including DOS and several Windows versions. The company argues that Motorola violates its FAT patent in the file system it employs in its Android version. Luckily for Motorola, however, Linux has several file systems, so the company could switch to those.
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