Comment Re:Great! Um... quick question: (Score 5, Insightful) 70
Because it is basically a gentleman's way between them where neither side wants to start invalidating patents too much else the other side comes back at their patents. Both sides want to basically "win" while retaining their own patents intact.
A "win" without holding a deck of patents at the end isn't a win for either of them.
You could also apply the basic premise of MAD during the cold war to this, but replace nukes with patent invalidation.