FTC Probes Patents on Google’s Smartphones

October 10, 2012

For more than a year, the Federal Trade Commission has been conducting a broad antitrust investigation into the way Google runs its Internet search and search advertising businesses. But in recent months it has added another investigation into Google’s competitive behavior: phones — specifically, patents that apply to lucrative smartphone technology, and the conduct of Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary.

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