[smnrchrds]

> What is the recourse here?

If you want to make a flashcard program, pray to gods Google will take pity on you and not enforce their patent. Otherwise, you better had set aside a couple of million dollars for the patent fight with Google. I mean, the patent will eventually get invalidated, but not before a decade in courts and millions of dollars in costs.

EDIT: Ignore everything I said. I got confused. I apologize. I am not going to change the original comment so the context of the replies would be preserved.

[learc83]

It's not a Google patent. The article link is just a link to patents.google.com, which is a Google search engine for patents not a list of patents owned by Google.

[lern_too_spel]

Why would Google pay to enforce a patent it doesn't own?

[klipt]

Somebody confused (Google's (patents search)) with ((Google's patents) search)

[ReverseCold]

It looks like it's a person (not a company) that owns the patent too, so unless this person is a m/billionaire a court case doesn't even sound that bad.

[Hnrobert42]

All patents are granted to people not companies. The people may then assign to a company the right to enforce the patent.

[ReverseCold]

Oh, I actually didn't know that. Thanks!

[kevin_thibedeau]

Until a troll buys the patent.