Microsoft has filed a law suit saying that Motorola and it's Android phones have infringed on nine of Microsoft's patents. The patents are related to e-mail, battery life, signal strength, and calendar. Google licenses Microsoft's ActiveSync for use in Android Microsoft may plan to argue that handset makers that add their own technologies to Android also need a license for ActiveSync. However, there is also speculation that Microsoft is using the suit to put pressure on Motorola into building phones using Windows Phone 7. This would add hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to Microsoft.
The suit may also be a motive for slowing down Android. Android is projected to be the second largest smartphone platform by 2012. Microsoft is planning the launch of it's Windows Phone later this month and needs all the help it can get in catching up in the smartphone market.
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