FOSS Patents on this: <a href="http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/09/jury-quickly-reaches-verdict-in-favor.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/09/jury-quickly-reaches-verd...</a><p>(Usual disclaimer: You can agree or disagree with him, but he provides a useful factual context for the decision.)
I expect Google to write-down Motorola eventually. The patents seem pretty worthless thus far.<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271432/does-anyone-know-why-google-bought-motorola" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271432/does-anyone-know-w...</a>
<i>Motorola Mobility didn’t act in good faith when it demanded patent royalties from Microsoft Corp</i><p>Duh! Nothing in these lawsuits is in good faith, all is done to screw the other side. MS got lucky Motorola played it dumb and lost. Asking 2.25% of the sale price just for a small portion of one feature takes b-lls. Being FRAND patents and all, no one forced Motorola to add their patents to standards.<p><i>U.S. District Judge James Robart, who presided over the trial, determined in April that the appropriate royalty rate was about a half-cent per unit for video-decoding technology and 3 1/2 cents for wireless technology. Microsoft said that would equal about $1.8 million a year.</i><p>Is this legally binding, assuming it's held on appeal?