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Re:HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement by mechanical_fish on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @03:16PM (#1341944)
Yes, what do you mean "too much to hope for"? It would be downright weird if anything other than a cross-licensing deal came out of this. All these suits and countersuits are just the lawyerly version of a threat display:

http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

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Re:HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement by jacquesm on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @03:22PM (#1341970)
I just had this vision of lawyers in courtrooms that do patent litigation sporting mandatory extra-large Baboon style mandibles.

You are absolutely right, that is exactly what it is.

Never even thought of it that way, brilliant insight.

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Re:HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement by lutorm on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @03:31PM (#1341987)
One can always hope for an invalidation of the patents involved...
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