Google’s Motorola Mobility Offers to End Microsoft Cases

Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit said it made a new offer to settle its patent-infringement disputes with Microsoft Corp. over the Xbox gaming system and smartphones. Microsoft questioned whether the offer was serious.

Motorola Mobility offered to pay 33 cents for every phone that uses Microsoft’s ActiveSync software to avoid an import ban by the U.S. International Trade Commission on phones that use the software, Kirk Dailey, vice president of intellectual property for Motorola Mobility, said in an interview yesterday.