Apple may not be behind the World Patent War against Google after all

[Wireless News]

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dwM1rE7TtHVUQRw8F5JIFg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/apple-vs-android-e1348162444756.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/apple-may-not-behind-world-patent-war-against-133518278.html)Apparently, Apple isn’t try to sue the heart of Google’s business. You see, last month, Rockstar — a consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and Sony that purchased 6,000 patents from Nortel in 2011 — sued Google, among others, for infringing six patents. Not just any patents, but ones that covered “an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network,” which is pretty much Google’s entire business. To many, this move looked like Apple-was escalating-Steve Jobs’s “thermonuclear war” against Android. Apple was also accused of acting like a patent troll, and Google was criticized for not taking the Nortel patents as seriously it should have when-it bid $3.14159 billion-on them in



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