Comment Re:Nevertheless, Microsoft is doomed (Score 2) 93
Google/Motorola trying to extract four billion dollars out of Microsoft for some
Nope. You are thinking of Alcatel/Lucent. And technically Alcatel/Lucent couldn't ask for a specific amount of money; the award was 1.5 billion dollars but could have been 4.5 billion dollars had the jury decided it was willful infringement.
Microsoft isn't an angel, but they do pay license fees on patents, and they were paid up on MP3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent_v._Microsoft_Corp.
Samsung being told by the EU that they could face a fine up to $17 billion unless they stop trying to use their patents in anti-competitive ways?
Yep. Actually up to $18.3 billion per this article:
http://bgr.com/2013/12/09/samsungs-patent-settlement-concessions-eu/