Motorola Calls for US to Ban Xbox

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Yes&comma; you read that right&period; Communications firm&comma; Motorola Mobility has called upon the US government to ban the import of Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s Xbox&comma; which is manufactured primarily in East Asia&period; They claim that the system that connects the controller to the console wirelessly infringes on five patents that Motorola holds and&comma; therefore&comma; should be barred from sale in the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; this claim was met with rather unhappy response from some of Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s affiliates&comma; such as Activision&comma; Cisco&comma; and IBM&period; It is highly unlikely that Motorola is going to discontinue US sales of the Xbox as so many different companies use the console as an almost direct source of revenue&period; Activision said that they&&num;8221&semi;&lpar;have&rpar; expended and continues to expend significant resources to develop video games and accessories specially adapted to operate on Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s Xbox gaming console&&num;8221&semi;&period; I&comma; personally&comma; would not expect anything to come from Motorola&&num;8217&semi;s complaint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;353315&sol;activision-opposes-us-xbox-ban-requested-by-motorola&sol;&quest;cid&equals;OTC-RSS&amp&semi;attr&equals;CVG-General-RSS&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;dlvr&period;it&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;twitter">CVG<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;