“Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not affect Motorola’s patent-related lawsuits against Apple, as the search company revealed on Monday it has no plans to rescind those legal complaints,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Motorola will continue to operate as a separate entity under Google, building handsets running Android as it has done before,” Hughes reports. “And the company will also continue to pursue any litigation it is involved in, Google Chief Legal Officer David C. Drummond said in a conference call.”
Hughes reports, “Drummond and other Google executives also declined to talk about the company’s potential legal strategies going forward, now that it is set to own Motorola’s massive patent portfolio. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said his company has 17,000 issued patents, and 7,500 patent applications that Google will now control. ‘We will be in a very good position to protect the Android ecosystem for all of our partners,’ Drummond said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A mere twelve days ago, patents were “bogus” and a mortal threat to Google’s so-called “innovation,” according to Drummond. Now he wants to use patents to promise “protection” to his soon-to-be-if-not-already-jilted PlayedForeSure “partners.” Sounds like, to Google, the only legitimate patents on earth are the patents for which they can successfully overpay.
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