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		protomyth on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 per... No, the judge would alter his ruling because of a Microsoft appeal. Judges are remarkably unimpressed with such attempts to use their rulings like that.

MichaelGG on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

What if Google had bought Vringo after the settlement with MS but before the judges ruling? Then it'd be a private contract?

Sort of the inverse of the Mosaic licensing, where Spyglass got a royalty off of IE revenue, and MS proceeded to give it away for free.

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