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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by kernal on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:17PM (#36300351)
>The disclosure by MOFCOM on April 8, 2014 is a direct result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile handset unit as that deal required approval by the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of MOFCOM. The disclosed lists were part of the antitrust review.

>Of the two lists of Microsoft patents disclosed by MOFCOM2, one was a list of 310 patents which included 73 "standard-essential” patents (SEPs) for smartphones; 127 patents which are “implemented in Android”; and 110 “nonstandard-essential” patents and applications (non-SEPs). This list is referred to as Annex “B” by Microsoft.3 The second list is identical to the non-SEP set minus one issued patent, U.S. Patent No.7,111,039. This list is referred to as Annex “A”.

https://www.m-cam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/patently_ob...

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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by robertlagrant on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:49PM (#36300873)
> With this disclosure, China may be attempting to counteract Microsoft’s chokehold on the smartphone market

This is a very strange statement!

But thanks - appreciate the link. Not sure how the "media player in the taskbar" got in there, but that's patents for you.

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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by kernal on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:58PM (#36302543)
At the time Microsoft was strong-arming every Android OEM into paying royalty payments or else. Samsung paid more than a billion dollars to Microsoft in royalty payments for those questionable patents. I'd call that a chokehold.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29505439

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