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Google's exactly the company I'd expect to follow a policy of saying "Don't sue us or we will invalidate your portfolio." I'd be more than a little confident th

Google's exactly the company I'd expect to follow a policy of saying "Don't sue us or we will invalidate your portfolio." I'd be more than a little confident that they could do it, too. Sure, it's more expensive than a licensing deal, but it's also a much bigger stick than a cross-licensable portfolio - disproportionately so, in my opinion.

extension 16y ago
Do you know how one would go about this? Can Google actively invalidate patents which they are not being accused of infringing?
- Tuna-Fish 16y ago
  No. But they can go after every patent is raised against them. This is the primary reason patents are mostly talk -- sure, MS can claim that Linux infringes a hundred of their patents. It probably infringes some of those, and some of the ones it infringes are probably even valid. But actually testing it in court would put the patent portfolio at risk -- and at least for now, they have valued not putting their patents at risk more than they have valued attacking their competitors.