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Before anyone goes on to say that of all the patents these are the only useful ones, it's not really like that. First of all, the Courts won't accept many more
by nextparadigms 15y ago
Before anyone goes on to say that of all the patents these are the only useful ones, it's not really like that. First of all, the Courts won't accept many more patent infringement claims than around that number. You can't go to Court and claim patent infringement for 5000 patents. Oracle tried with a few hundred and the judge forced them to drop most of them. This means they're going to find as many that are some of the most useful ones.
Also, Apple claimed patent infringement on 20 patents against HTC, and they only won with 2 very old ones, and I think they won a few hundred millions with them. So it's good to keep that into perspective.
Even if Motorola loses in Court with about 20 of them in the first round, they can try with another 20 in another lawsuit later. This is why Microsoft and Apple will probably settle their patent disputes with Google. Google has too many patents now, more than Microsoft even.