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> This is a key difference

It is a distinction without a difference - without knowing which patents are 'Android patents' (i.e. the ones in the licensing deals), avoiding them is impossible.



Could you find them by looking at the patent markings on Android devices (or in the accompanying documents) made by companies that licensed the patents? The patent licensing deal that granted them the right to use those patents should have included a requirement that they mark.


From the wording of that story I assume no, or it wouldn't have required the Chinese government to reveal them.


A two-term USPTO search for "Microsoft" and "Android" plus any terms specific to the technolog(ies) you are interested in reveals their patents.




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