[wallflower]

Ideally, a consortium of Apple+Microsoft+Nokia+Google+HTC+Samsung would buy out Lodsys to silence it.

The price would be in the 9 figures though.

However, if only Apple bought out Lodsys, would it go after Google with its new weapons?

[orangecat]

Ideally, a consortium of Apple+Microsoft+Nokia+Google+HTC+Samsung would buy out Lodsys to silence it.

That would be very bad. It would provide a strong incentive for future patent trolls to do exactly the same thing.

[dmooney1]

So maybe get these companies to spend nine figures founding a non-profit to systematically challenge the patent trolls' portfolio.