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"FORTUNE &amp;#8212; So far, the &amp;#8220;thermonuclear war&amp;#8221; Steve Jobs promised to wage against Google \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGOOG\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t for allegedly ripping off the iPhone has been fought through proxies &amp;#8212; several dozen lawsuits filed in courts around the world against the manufacturers of Android phones and tablets.\nNow, in a move rich with irony, Google has accused Apple \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAAPL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t of ripping off its patents. And rather than attacking a proxy, it has filed\u00A0suit directly against Cupertino in the U.S. International Trade Commission.\nThe claim, according to press statements issued to\u00A0Bloomberg and the \n  Wall Street Journal\n, is that Apple&amp;#8217;s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringe seven of the roughly 17,000 patents Google inherited when it bought Motorola Mobility just over a year ago.\n&amp;#8220;We would like to settle these patent matters,&amp;#8221; said a spokesperson for Google&amp;#8217;s Motorola division, &amp;#8220;but Apple\u2019s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers\u2019 innovations.&amp;#8221;\nThe filing has not yet been made public. and Google has been a little vague about what patents Apple may have infringed &amp;#8212; except to say that they are not the kind of standards-essential patents that Motorola had earlier tried and failed to use against Apple. (See here.)\nAccording to TechCrunch&amp;#8216;s Frederick Lardinois, the\u00A0patents in question involve location reminders, e-mail notifications, video playback and Siri, and were deemed serious enough to demand an import ban against nearly every iOS product Apple makes.\nCynics might point out, as\u00A0FOSS Patent&amp;#8216;s Florial Mueller did Saturday, that Google&amp;#8217;s suit was filed only days before the expected arrival of what could be two pieces of bad legal news for Mountain View:\n\nOn Thursday, the ITC is scheduled to issue a final ruling on a suit Motorola Mobility brought against Apple before it was acquired &amp;#8212; one that Mueller thinks likely to be decided in Apple&amp;#8217;s favor\nOn Wednesday, the \u00A0jury is scheduled to begin deliberations in the multi-billion dollar Apple v. Samsung trial &amp;#8212; a trial that most court watchers feel has not been going well for the world&amp;#8217;s largest manufacturer of Android phones.\n\nGoogle, says Mueller, may be hoping to show its manufacturing partners at this critical juncture that it has a patent war chest equal to Apple&amp;#8217;s.\nIt may also be trying to to prove to Wall Street that it wasn&amp;#8217;t pouring money down the drain last August when it spent a whopping $12.5 billion to buy Motorola Mobility."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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