Week 9, Post 1 — Google loses another one—Motorola a bad decision?

An Administrative Law Judge at the United States International Trade Commission has given notice of a preliminary ruling that Microsoft's Xbox gaming console does not infringe Google's (Motorola's) patent on a "capability addressable network and menthod therefor."

The Judge's notice just says that no violation was found.This decision brings a lot of questions in to mind about Google's decision to purchase Motorola Mobility. With every Microsoft-Google patent ruling that comes down, Google's logic for spending $12.5 billion on Motorola comes under scrutiny. Microsoft has already won a U.S import ban over one patent, and three German patent injunctions against Motorola, and is fairly likely to win an even more consequential German injunction against Google Maps based on a preliminary injunction given at a trial earlier in March. In a nutshell, Google's Motorola hasn't won anything except a couple of German H.264 patent rulings that it never got to enforce anyway.

So the way it looks right now, is that Google's decision to buy Motorola might not have been the best one.