Steve Jobs' incendiary comments about Android (s GOOG) in his biography have been ruled fair game for Motorola's lawyers in its upcoming trial versus Apple(s AAPL). The presiding judge laid out some of the ground rules for the case this week, many of which were not in Apple's favor.
On Thursday, federal Judge Richard Posner, who's assigned to the trial set to begin later this month over a series of alleged smartphone patent violations, refused a request by Apple's legal team to exclude quotes from Walter Isaacson's…