Does purchasing Motorola help? Yes, but they have already made 3 very large enemies.
Through the Nortel purchase, Apple and Microsoft now have plenty of patents to go after Google and their partners for networky/antenna/cell technology stuff as well. Apple, Microsoft and Oracle have plenty of Linux related patents through their acquisition of the Novell patents which the could use to go after Android OS related stuff. Microsoft and Apple both have numerous UI and OS related patents and will continue to harass Google by going after their partners. Oracle can do some real damage by being the holder of Java patents.
Google is in a very precarious situation and I can easily see it going this way:
Google buys Motorola Mobility
Google transfers patents to themselves
Android OEMs grow tired of paying money to Microsoft and soon Apple and Oracle
Samsung and HTC feel abandoned in partnership and focus more on WP7
Motorola Mobility continues to lose money
Google sells Motorola Mobility minus patents for peanuts
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