Samsung
passes the
buck to
Google for
alleged Apple patent violations

Samsung has apparently come up with a new strategy to get
Apple to stop
beating it up for $1 billion patent verdicts: Pass the
buck to Google.
NPR reporter Laura Sydell reports that
Samsung attorney John Quinn argued during his*opening remarks in the latest
patent trial with
Apple that "all the software on its [Galaxy Nexus] phone*was created by Google" and that this software "is used by a lot of companies," **t just
Samsung. Quinn went on to argue that Apple's real beef is with
Google and that its real target is every Android-based device **w on the market.
San Jose Mercury News reporter Howard Mintz comments that
Samsung is "clearly going to use
Google as this gi**rmous tech shield against Apple's
patent claims."
Apple, for its part, seemed to want ** part of bringing
Google into the discussion and its attorneys said during their opening remarks that it was Samsung, **t Google, that was selling and making money from
smartphones that allegedly violate Apple's patents.