Arī Redmondas pacietības mērs kļuva pilns, kad Motorola Mobility pieprasīja 2,25% par 50 ar H.264 video standartu saistītiem patentiem, un kompānija vērsusies pie Eiropas Savienības konkurences uzraugiem ar prasību ierobežot Motorola apetīti.
Microsoft norāda, ka kopumā h.264 standartā ietilpst pāri par 2300 patentiem, un par visiem ne-Motorola piederošiem patentiem tiek maksāta0.00002% licences nauda kompāniju apvienībai, kurai tie pieder.
Deivs Heiners, Microsoft viceprezidents un konsula vietnieks blogā norāda:
"You probably take for granted that you can view videos on your smartphone, tablet, PC, or DVD/Blu-ray player and connect to the Internet without being tied to a cable. That works because the industry came together years ago to define common technical standards that every firm can use to build compatible products for video and Wi-Fi. Motorola and all the other firms that contributed to these standards also made a promise to one another: that if they had any patents essential to the standards, they would make their patents available on fair and reasonable terms, and would not use them to block competitors from shipping their products.
Motorola has broken its promise. Motorola is on a path to use standard essential patents to kill video on the Web, and Google as its new owner doesn’t seem to be willing to change course. (..) “Motorola should honor its promises, and make its standard essential patents available on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms. Microsoft is certainly prepared to pay a fair and reasonable price for use of others’ intellectual property. Within just the past few years, Microsoft has entered into more than a thousand patent licenses. We know how it’s done.”
(īsumā: Motorola nerespektē veidu, kā industrijā pieņemts izmantot patentus, kuri iekļauti vispārējos standartus, un tas var nodarīt ievērojamu ļaunumu video un WiFi izmantošanai ierīcēs un internetā. Google kā jaunais Motorola īpašnieks, no savas puses nedara nekā, lai Motorola uzņemto kursu mainītu. Microsoft ir gatava maksāt saprātīgu un nediskriminējošu licences naudu un kompānija pāris pēdējo gadu laikā vin ir noslēgusi tūkstošiem šadas vienošanās un zina, kā tas ir darāms.).