Patent infringement lawsuits between Silicon Valley companies are as common as muck these days, but a suit just filed by HTC takes a new tack. On September 1, Google transferred nine patents acquired from Motorola, Palm and OpenWave to HTC, who uses Google's Android software for their mobile phones. HTC then turned around and sued Apple for copyright infringement on all nine patents. Patent litigation expert Florian Mueller posed a couple of hypothesis why Google is sticking up for HTC so directly:
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