I'm hoping this is a situation where google hopes they'll lose but they'll force apple to argue public ally against ridiculous software patents.
But this is probably giving Google too much credit.
"Do no evil (unless your competitors have done evil first - then it's fair game)."
Can't wait to hear the rationalization on why it's okay for Google to propagate the mobile IP war and not it's competitors...
Interesting especially since they have previously won in a previous case with the same patents and they're battling in europe as well.