> And Apple was the largest stakeholer in the Rockstar Consortium and, from the very getgo, Apple never intended to use them as a defense against Qualcomm I wa

> And Apple was the largest stakeholer in the Rockstar Consortium and, from the very getgo, Apple never intended to use them as a defense against Qualcomm I was never suggesting Apple planned to us patents from Rockstar/Nortel to go after Qualcomm. I was suggesting that Apple acquired Infineon IP as a means to defend itself if it were sued when it released it's own modem. > The Rockstar was a patent troll operation concocted by Apple to harasse Apple's competitors I don't think it was that cut and dry. Apple's two main offensive lawsuits during the Smartphone wars were against HTC and Samsung and didn't involve patents from Rockstar. Each member of the Rockstar consortium had their own motivations but ultimately it was a defensive move to outbid Google who acquire over 14000 patents from Motorola and IBM that year. Most of the lawsuits Apple was involved in at that time were a result of litigation against them, not litigation they initiated.