Microsoft's Android patent claims get tested Monday

The first test of Microsoft's claims that device makers have been running Google Android mobile operating system infringes on its patent is Monday. 

The Administrative Law Judge Theodore R. Essex, Motorola of the United States International Trade Commission against Microsoft, claiming the most closely watched patent disputes will be heard in techdom.Microsoft ITC Motorola equipment with manufacturing facilities in order to bring the dispute to block foreign shipments before they hit American soil. 

Both Microsoft and Motorola declined to comment on the hearing. Barnes & Noble Microsoft and other mobile device manufacturers to his nook electronic reading tablet against the ITC, with a similar claim is filed. Apple iPhone handsets that claim similar patent infringement lawsuit Taiwanese handset maker HTC. Hearing that in Washington, DC headquarters of ITC begins Monday, Microsoft's patent validity and infringement on whether Motorola will focus on them. 

Microsoft and Motorola make their cases, the ITC judge Essex lawyers can guide you chime in too. The hearing is scheduled to last about 10 days. But do not expect an instant decision. After an initial determination to judge this year, followed in 2012 will make a final decision. If he rules that Motorola infringed on Microsoft's patents, that the injunction issued in a dispute could block the shipment of equipment. 

 While Google is not a party to litigation, it will loom large in the case. Earlier this month, Google, Microsoft's expert witness testimony is a demand, arguing that Microsoft improperly revealing her Android source code. And, as is typical in patent disputes, Motorola has filed a countersuit, servers, PCs and mobile devices in Windows 16 for its Xbox gaming console and Microsoft accused of infringing patents.