Following up on Apple's lawsuit against device maker HTC regarding a matter of 20 patents, Google offered the following statement:
"We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it," said a Google spokesperson in an article over on TechCrunch.
Although it seems a little weird that Google would offer this comment, there is the fact that HTC's devices, including the Nexus One, the Magic/myTouch 3G, the Dream/G1, the Hero and the Droid Eris currently run on Google's Android operating system. Per the popular Nexus One, Google worked closely with HTC to make the device, and is completely in control of selling it.