Tim Porter, Google's patent counsel, suggested in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that the current system of patent registration for software was partly to blame for the storm of lawsuits by Microsoft and others regarding the Android operating system. Porter said that current patent law allows Microsoft to use the large patent portfolio it has acquired over the years to get revenue from other companies "when their products stop succeeding in the marketplace, when they get marginalized, as is happening now with Android." Industry research shows Android le
