When Google acquired Motorola in 2011, the acquisition came with a number of standards-essential patents owned by Motorola; these are patents for parts and technology that are "essential" to the manufacture of certain products and as a result, licensing these patents is supposed to be done in a Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) manner...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/FTC-reaches-deal-with-Google-over-FRAND-patents_id45688
