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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