Google is currently in talks with Apple to discuss  any patent issues they may have with each other.  Google is looking to avoid the same fate as Samsung.  So in Google’s best interest they want to settle before they start releasing phones with mobile partner Motorola
Cook and Page spoke by phone last week and are expected to talk more soon, said the person, who asked not to be named because the conversations aren’t public. The person didn’t elaborate on the details of the discussions.
Apple is embroiled in lawsuits with several makers ofsmartphones that use Google’s Android operating system. Apple last week won a $1.05 billion verdict from a Californiajury, which found that features of some of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Android-based phones infringed patents for the iPhone. Samsung’s stock tumbled the most in almost four years after the verdict.
Even though Apple hasn’t sued Google directly, the iPhone maker’s patent lawsuits against Samsung and HTC Corp. (2498) have targeted features from Android. Apple co-founderSteve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that Android was a “stolen product.â€
Apple considered suing Google directly before filing its first smartphone patent-infringement suit against HTC in 2010, according to a person close to Apple’s legal team.
Apple decided against it after determining that going after the manufacturers of rival smartphones would be a better strategy than building a case against Google, this person said. The Android developer, also owner of the most popular Internet- search engine, gives the mobile operating system away for free to handset makers in exchange for advertising revenue.
Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, a smartphone maker that Google acquired in May, filed a patent-infringement complaint against Apple earlier this month. In the complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, Motorola Mobility accuses Apple of infringing seven patents, including one related to Apple’s Siri voice- recognition feature.
Reuters reported the talks between Apple and Google earlier. Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, declined to comment, as did Niki Fenwick, a spokeswoman for Google.
