Apple-Google Duel for Mobile Supremacy Boon for Lawyers: Tech - Bloomberg

Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and rival handset and software makers, seeking to defend their turf in the surging mobile-phone market, are competing for top patent lawyers as litigation floods courtrooms worldwide. Google is looking for a vice president of patents, a new position, said a person familiar with the plans, who declined to be named because the position isn’t advertised.