In a move to expand their corporate might, the ever present Google has acquired the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility. This results in their acquiring at least 17,000 patents that were owned by Motorola. There is also the issue of the pending 7,000 that are under the process of evaluation, further expanding the reach of the internet giant in this their latest foray into the mobile market.
Google has long been in the sights of other internet giants such as Apple and Microsoft when it comes to patent court cases. With the addition of these new ones, they are getting more to complain about. Now is the move aimed to simply protect their booming systems such as Android, only they can tell but experts are speculating that they are readying