But "taking gentlemanly agreements off the table" is not all they did. For all the noise Google made about abuse of patents in the smartphone wars, they, through Motorola, were the only company that was actually penalized buy a federal court for abusing patents, and made to pay damages to Microsoft. Sure the lawsuit started before Google acquired Motorola, but this judgement happened two years after they completed the acquisition. I'm sure you'll agree that asking billions for patents that a court finally decided were only worth a couple million is pretty egregious.