By Brian Womack
Google Inc. (GOOG), responding to a jury verdict that found its partner Samsung Electronics Co. infringed Apple Inc. (AAPL) patents, said most of the claims “don’t relate to the core Android” software used in mobile devices.
“The court of appeals will review both infringement and the validity of the patent claims,” Mountain View, California- based Google said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “Most of these don’t relate to the core Android operating system, and several are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent Office.”
Google, owner of the world’s largest Web search engine, lets mobile-phone manufacturers weave its Android operating system into their handsets at no charge. It suffered a setback on Aug. 24, when a California jury said Samsung, the biggest user of Android, infringed Apple patents.
“This verdict is a major victory for Apple vis a vis the Android ecosystem,” said Toni Sacconaghi , an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., in a research report today. “That said, we don’t think it is a game-changing loss for Android.”
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