Googorola or Moogle

Google's recent buy out of Motorola mobility has thrown up interesting questions than answering them. Has Google for the first time gone to backfoot by apple that it had to join the smartphone wars led by the handset makers. The company which was an eye to eye with the Chinese government, today is on a reverse gear due to patent infringements claims.

Why did Google shell out such a huge amount for its non-core business? A question left many people bewildered. A probable answer to this is firstly, Google's Android mobile OS is under attack through patent infringement claims by Apple. Apple has already got injunction into Samsung Galaxy tab (in Australia and Germany), running Android Honeycomb and Galaxy phones in Netherlands. Motorola has also been sued by apple in US over different patent infringements cases. The matter became worse when Google lost out to Apple+Microsoft consortium in bidding for the Nortel Patents. So how will Motorola purchase help them? Motorola has a chest of 17,000 patents to its name and another 6500 pending. This gives Google a war-chest of ammunitions in this crazy war for patent.

Other side effects, Nokia and RIM are being pursuit-ed because of their rich patent portfolios, and with HP putting the down for WebOS, is Samsung sniffing WebOS?
Sadly, the patents which were to protect innovation, is now seeming to stifle innovation. at least in the case of mobile smartphone domain.