It’s seemingly a response to a lawsuit filed by Microsoft earlier in the year, alleging Motorola was ripping the Xbox 360 manufacturer off with “royalties that are excessive and discriminatory” for certain pieces of technology Microsoft was licensing for use in the console.
Motorola’s complaint to the ITC is a serious one: it’s calling for a total halt on Xbox 360 sales while the matter is sorted out. While such a move would seem highly unlikely given the severity of the penalty, it’s still probably enough to ruin a few people’s Christmas up at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ.
The ITC will conclude its investigation early in 2011.
USITC INSTITUTES SECTION 337 INVESTIGATION ON CERTAIN GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT CONSOLES, RELATED SOFTWARE, AND COMPONENTS THEREOF [USITC, via Slashdot]
Steve0410
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 5:36 PMIs Luke mistaken in what he thinks a ‘telco’ is? Because last I checked, Motorola was just a device manufacturer.
Travis New
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 8:24 PMMotorola not only make handsets but they also make equipment for cell towers and have designed telecommunication tech for years such as base stations for example.