So far, Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) has restricted its
patents battles to individual phone makers who use the Android operating
system, but analysts feel that it may not be too far in the future before Apple
launches a direct attack on the company.
After all, Apple founder, the late Steve Jobs had
commented about Android that it was too similar to Apple's iOS. He had told his
biographer Walter Isaacson that Android was a stolen product and, "I'm
willing to go thermonuclear on this."
Apple's patent victory against Samsung, which is the
global leader in smartphones and as such uses Android on most of its devices
barring a few, is seen as the first step in the Cupertino company's unstated
war against Google Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG).
The verdict is expected to give it more confidence to
take on the Internet search giant that has now entered the mobile space also
with its Google Nexus tablet PCs and its acquisition earlier of Motorola
Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion.
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But will the patents that it owns through the
acquisition protect Google from Apple's patent protectors?
Underlying all the lawsuits filed by Apple is the
Android operating software that has become a key point of contention between
the two tech giants.
Google has to aggressively defend its Android
software, which has surpassed Apple’s operating system, and it will turn to its
Motorola patents to do it.
But it’s unclear how effective those patents will be
in insulating Android.
Apple is already engaged in lawsuits with Motorola
Mobility that were filed as far back as in 2010, and some of the suits are
pending before the U.S. International Trade Commission and federal court in
Delaware.
Friday's verdict should serve as a warning sign to
Google that it as to accelerate and find solutions to the patents problems that
are escalating day by day. The only saving grace for Google is that a
significant chunk of its revenues still come from its search-engine related
advertising and Android merely serves as a distributing medium for its
products.
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