A lot of the speculation re: Lodsys was that the license Apple et al had from IV for these patents prevented them from contesting the validity of the patents (s

A lot of the speculation re: Lodsys was that the license Apple et al had from IV for these patents prevented them from contesting the validity of the patents (standard language apparently). So what's great here is Google either confirms that this is not the case or that they found a way around it or are ignoring it.