Google Tears Into Apple, Microsoft Over 'Hostile' Patent Fight

Back-and-forth charges come via blogs, tweets

Google’s top legal officer came out all guns blazing in a blog post Wednesday about the escalating patent battle between the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant and a few of its top rivals.

In a blistering post titled “When patents attack Android,” the company’s senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond said the success of the company’s mobile platform has yielded “a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.”

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