Android have receive another fired shot from Microsoft, this time aiming at Barnes and Noble and various other companies asscociated in the manufacturing of the Nook Color, like Foxconn and Inventec.

In the lawsuit, it claims that Microsoft owns several patents that are apparently violated within the Android OS and so they want profits off these patents or they’ll be taken to court.

Horcio Gutierrez, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing, said “The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights. To facilitate that we have established an industry-wide patent licensing program for Android device manufacturers”.

He then added “HTC, a market leader in Android smartphones, has taken a license under this program. We have tried for over a year to reach licensing agreements with Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec. Their refusals to take licenses leave us no choice but to bring legal action to defend our innovations and fulfil our responsibility to our customers, partners, and shareholders to safeguard the billions of dollars we invest each year to bring great software products and services to market”.

Issues that Microsoft has to deal with here are surfing the web quickly and efficiently, and interacting with documents and e-books.

What are you thoughts on Microsoft’s defence of their own possessions?

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