I don't think they were expecting to win in court. For the number of patent suits that are brought, the number that are seen through to a judgment is really qui

I don't think they were expecting to win in court. For the number of patent suits that are brought, the number that are seen through to a judgment is really quite small. I can't find the link at the moment, but there was a story that Yahoo did essentially the same thing to Google before their IPO. The suit was dropped in exchange for Yahoo getting some of Google's pre-IPO stock. I'd guess the same thing is going on here. The suit/counter-suit is likely nothing more than a trumped up "we want some of your stock" negotiation.