On Friday, a German court ruled that several of Motorola’s Android devices infringed on a patent of Microsoft’s relating to the File Allocation Transfer system architecture. The lower regional Mannheim court issued an injunction against the sale of Motorola phones including the Atrix, the Razr, and the Razr Maxx, according to AllThingsD . The patent in question allows the creation of flexible names for media files in the FAT filesystem, so users can find and change file names easily. It creates two names for a file: an operating system file name and an application system file name that permits a user to edit it. Microsoft is hoping to get Motorola, now part of Google, to pay for licenses with the company, but Motorola has yet to do so. “We will continue to enforce injunctions against Motorola Mobility products in those countries and hope they will join other Android device makers by taking a license to Microsoft’s patented inventions,” Microsoft’s deputy general counsel David Howard said in a statement. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Microsoft wins injunction against Motorola phones in Germany