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They have had a strong incentive to respond throughout these cases
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 02:59 AM EST
With apple and Microsoft basically taxing their customers
and spreading FUD about their platform.

It will be interesting to see if they've been holding back
due to some (possibly misplaced) "don't be evil" vibe,
whether they were restricted due to not being named in a
suit, or whether they lack the ability to respond
adequately.

Clearly from the Oracle case they have the ability to hire
good legal teams to destroy junk patents, and argue non-
infringement but perhaps these other cases are different in
terms of the IP quality, or (possibly perceived) bias
of these courts. Frankly it doesn't matter how good your
legal team is if the judge (or jury) has already decided the
winner before the case starts.

Notably Google has had no luck at all in the limited
offensive patent stuff via Motorola, I wonder if this is
because they lack effective IP for this or if they have been
holding back.

The time is well past for someone to enforce some wide
ranging injunction on apple products via a dubious "device
with corners or edges" style patent. Seems like the only way
they'll stop this behaviour is if they are made to pay for
it, and nobody seems willing or able to do that so far.

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