Probably the situation with HTC's LTE patents which got Apple on the ropes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/htc-patents-challenged-by-apple-probably-va

Probably the situation with HTC's LTE patents which got Apple on the ropes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/htc-patents-challenged-by-apple-probably-valid-judge-say.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/htc-patents-challen... Plus HTC's downward trend recently probably made the cross-license more palatable.