Significance: Oracle is so desperate to get a conclusion to its legal battle with Google that it is willing to suspend or even forgo patent claims, as long as it can fight its copyright case this spring. This indicates the urgency with which key IPR players are looking to establish their position in the rapidly expanding smartphone industry, but while the Java-Android dispute goes to the heart of the Google platform, other attacks, mainly by Apple, are looking increasingly gratuitous The year has started with more of the same in the mobile patents war ‘ Samsung and Apple hurling more injunction claims at one another, ups and downs for both Android and Apple in US and European courts. The main…