The president of Google Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond paints a picture of rivals jealous of the success of Android, noting that more than 550,000 Android devices are on a daily basis.
"But Android's success has been something else: a hostile environment, the organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, led by patents false," Drummond wrote in a message in "When Android patent attack. "
The three rivals are pecking at Android, sue Google for violating several patents in the creation of the popular operating system. Oracle has sued a year ago, to accuse Google of infringing patents related to Java, the company acquired database when he took possession of Sun Microsystems in early 2010.
Microsoft took a different approach, looking for manufacturers of devices that use Android, including Barnes & Noble, which makes electronic reading corner, and Motorola. The software giant has also led several companies, including HTC, to pay for the patent license to use Android to avoid being sued.
In late June, Apple was part of the consortium of technology companies, with Microsoft, which won the bidding with $ 4.5 billion offer to take charge of Nortel's portfolio includes about 6,000 patents and wireless, 4G wireless, data networking, optical, voice, Internet and semiconductor technology. Apple invested $ 2.6 billion for this offer. The group outbid Google.
Drummond wrote that not all legal actions and purchases of patents only defeat Android.
"Patents are supposed to promote innovation, but lately, they are used as a weapon to stop it," Drummond wrote.
Officials from Apple, Microsoft and Oracle declined comment on CNET. But later in the day, Microsoft general counsel and senior vice president Brad Smith has suggested in a Tweet Drummond corrupted Microsoft's intentions in buying Novell patent, purchased earlier this year through a partnership that includes Microsoft, Apple and Oracle.
"We bought a patent says Google from Novell to keep them in Google. Really? We asked them to bid with us. They said no," Smith wrote.