As previously reported, Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility was motivated in part by its desire to acquire wireless patents to protect its own efforts in the smartphone business. It was also seen as a defensive move, since Microsoft and Apple, Google’s Android competitors, recently teamed up to buy thousands of patents from Nortel.

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