Either you like to use the weapons at your disposal or you don't. The whole defensive / offensive idea is just a smoke screen. It's exactly like non-proliferati

Either you like to use the weapons at your disposal or you don't. The whole defensive / offensive idea is just a smoke screen. It's exactly like non-proliferation! Believing Google wants patents for 'defensive' purposes is like believing Iran wants to enrich uranium to generate energy. Google has never used patents offensively because it would get destroyed by anyone worth suing. If a serious adsense/search competitor took 50% of Google's revenues and had no patents they'd be sued into oblivion.