Microsoft has scored another victory against the Android camp as the ITC confirmed a claim that Motorola is violating one of the company’s patents. The patent in question describes the creation of meeting requests with a scheduling function on mobile devices. the decision by the ITC is the second hit against Android within two days. Earlier this week, the ITC found that HTC violates an Apple patent and issued an injunction against the affected devices beginning in April.

The decision in the Microsoft versus Motorola case is an “initial determination” and may change at the review in the second phase of the process. If the ITC confirms its current decision, Motorola is likely to be prevented from importing its smartphones from their manufacturing facilities in Asia to the United States. Motorola already responded and said that the ITC decision will help the company to figure out ways how to avoid a violation of the Microsoft patent.

However, given the dimension of the smartphone patent battlefield, the finding is just a drop in the bucket. Microsoft currently alleges that Motorola violates 30 Microsoft patents, which is substantial especially in the view that Motorola will soon be part of Google and at the core of Android development.

SOURCE via ITC