“Google may have kept a low profile amid the legal clashing between Samsung Electronics and Apple, but the company hasn’t abandoned its Android partners,” Roger Cheng and Greg Sandoval report for CNET.
“Rather, Google has been quietly lending support, coordinating with Samsung over legal strategies, providing advice, doing extra legwork, and searching for prior evidence, CNET has learned from people familiar with the situation,” Cheng and Sandoval report. “Last month, Google asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to intervene on HTC’s behalf in its case against Nokia. In addition, many of the companies that rely on Google’s Android operating system to power their handsets, coincidentally or not, have tapped Google’s law firm of choice.”
Cheng and Sandoval report, “The steps Google has taken to aid its allies illustrate the tenuous line the company walks as Apple wages war against many of them. Though Google and its Android platform have a vested interest in Google partners succeeding, the company has yet to directly take on Apple itself. ‘Google will want to stay away from this trial as much as possible,’ said Neil Shah, an analyst at Strategy Analytics. ‘They don’t want to directly confront Apple.'”
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