Late last month, an International Trade Commission (ITC) Administrative Law Judge threw out Barnes & Noble's key claims in its patent dispute with Microsoft that the software company was abusing patents it held on elements of the Android OS in order to push it out of the market. Earlier this week, an edited copy of the judge's ruling was made available to the public PDF). The judge was of the opinion that while Microsoft's actions were "hard bargaining", they did not constitute misuse of the patents.
