Microsoft sues Samsung for not living up to terms of a cross-licensing pact

Today, Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Microsoft is seeking legal help in getting Samsung to pay Microsoft as per the terms of a contract between them. Ironically, Microsoft owns a number of patents related to the production of Android devices, and both companies entered into a cross-licensing agreement in 2011, to share each others' IP.



As Microsoft has pointed out, in the years since that contract was signed, Samsung has quadrupled its smartphone sales, and now is the world's leading supplier of these devices. The year ...