Google can easily gather ambiguous patents to protect Android from other ambiguous ones. And older cellphone producers like Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and others most probably already have a patent portfolio far larger than HTC to fend off patent trolls, heck, LG presented and launched the first LG Prada, almost equal to the first iPhone, months before Apple presented and launched the iPhone itself. Motorola, despite its troubles, surely has a patent portfolio large enough, in the telco field, to cack on Apple and MS and any of their patent claims.







