Google Slams Patent Foes’ ‘Hostile, Organized Campaign Against Android'

Google spoke out in uncharacteristically harsh terms regarding the mobile patent proxy wars that Chairman Eric Schmidt proclaimed just weeks ago were not a worry.

In a blog post, Google decried the efforts of its competitors in the mobile space to attack Android with “bogus” patents and promised to fight back. After pointing out the growth of the Android mobile operating system over the past few years, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, wrote that “Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.” Drummond pointed out the various patent cases that are pending against Google and its Android partners as well as the licensing discussions that are taking place daily in the mobile industry to avoid the threat of legal action. The blog post is Google’s strongest response yet to the aftermath of the Nortel patent auction, in which a consortium including Microsoft, Apple, and Research in Motion outbid Google in acquiring around 6,000 patents for $4.5 billion.