Android development by huge investment Google stood in Microsoft shoulder
Microsoft global intellectual property and the authentication group, a senior vice-president at the global legal consultant Ann (Horacio E. Gutierrez) accept SFGate interview that mobile phone operating system is a result by companies billions of dollars investment, Google is standing in the Microsoft such a big company on the shoulder. About mobile phone manufacturer of disputes between the lawsuit, the ancient Ann says, "there any new technology is always messy patent disputes, faced with smart phones are no exception. It was chaos and to shuffling of the period, the technology is well known until owners did not come to an end."
"Patent dispute headache, but it is normal and necessary. If no patent protection, the company without motive spend years time, investment billions of dollars the r&d of new products. No license contract, no action, competitors and won't respect patent all who give investment."
In addition, the ancient Ann also think, now more innovation is in software, so patent protection in protection is innovation. Numerous studies have demonstrated, patent protection in fact play a key role, to ensure that the United States in the leading position in the field of science and technology.