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A few years ago, Motorola was dying. Hoping to shake up the phone industry, Google created a mobile operating system called Android and gave it away free. Motorola loved it, used it, made some cool phones, and turned the company around. Now, today, we learn that Google is buying Motorola Mobility for twelve and a half billion dollars.
Google doesn’t want to do what Motorola Mobility does (sell phones); it wants the company because it’s got a big heap of patents—seventeen thousand, apparently, with seven thousand more under review. And this is why today’s news is profoundly depressing.
Over the past several months, phone manufacturers have sued, sued, and sued some more. Android is facing more than forty lawsuits. Last week, Apple—with a legal department as innovative as its design department—got all of Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs pulled from stores in Europe. Motorola, last week, threatened to sue everyone else using Android. The mobile-computing industry resembles the Balkans in the nineties. Everyone has deep grievances against everyone else, the shifting alliances are inscrutable, and the end results are likely to be bad. Meanwhile, patent trolls play the role of freelance snipers, firing totally unpredictable lawsuits at everyone.
Full article:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/n ... z1V8lPHqpz