IIRC, this means that Lodsys is now embattled on three distinct fronts:

1) Apple is intervening in court based on the exhaustion principle, having agreed not to go for invalidity or non-infringement defences, because they had taken a licence from Lodsys. This of course mostly helps iOS developers.

2) Google has initiated USPTO re-examination to try for invalidation. This potentially helps everyone.

3) Oracle is going for invalidity and non-infringement defences in court. This potentially helps everyone if they can prove the patents are invalid, but only Oracle customers (direct and otherwise) if they have to rely on non-infringement.

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