in august  page announced that google would spend $ billion to acquire motorola mobility the purchase was primarily motivated by googles need to secure patents to protect android from lawsuits by companies including apple inc page wrote on googles official blog on august   that "companies including microsoft and apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on android the united states department of justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to "protect competition and innovation in the open source software community" our acquisition of motorola will increase competition by strengthening google’s patent portfolio which will enable us to better protect android from anti-competitive threats from microsoft apple and other companies"