The news about Microsoft Licenses Palm Technology.In the latest move to gain a competitive edge in the heated smartphone wars, software giant Microsoft on Thursday licensed several patents on technology that originally came from its competitor Palm for its smartphones.
The patents were licensed from Access and a subsidiary of Acacia Research, a Japanese company that acquired the developer of Palm's operating system, PalmSource, in 2005. They cover patents created by Palm, Palmsource, Bell Communications Research, and Geoworks. The move puts Microsoft on better legal footing against any potential issues with Palm, which Hewlett-Packard now owns.
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