What a log of nonsense. IBM is the grandaddy of Mob style stand over tactics for licensing their huge patent portfolio.
IBM: here is a list of 20 patents we believe you infringe, pay us $20 million.
Company X: But we don't' even use any of those 20 patents you listed!
IBM: Ok, here is a list of another 20 patents we believe you infringed, pay us $20 million.
Company X: But we didn't use those either!
IBM: We got all day to play this game if you want. Just pay us the $20 million, we have 10,000s of patents and there is bound to be 20 you have infringed so pay up.
Google on the other hand doesn't really have any patents which is why they went on a multi-billion dollar buying spree recently to try and catch up. Heck Stanford University even owns the main Search Algorithm patent that Google, Inc. licenses.
Nokia and Apple both with a shit load of patents ended up agreeing for Apple to cross-license Nokia's GSM and other industry standards patents, paid them a few $100 million in back payments and ongoing royalties for FRAND based patents.
HTC, Samsung, Motorola have all used denied Apple licensing for their GSM and related standards based patents they are obligated to under FRAND terms. Instead they have said Apple should cross license the iOS specific patents in exchange for FRAND standards based patents. Additionally Motorola have changed the cross license agreements with Qualcomm to specifically exclude the Qualcomm cross-license to apply when Apple is a purchaser of Qualcomm chips in iPhones. This is why the EU is currently investigating the lot of them for Anti-trust violations.
The reason for all of this is Google decided very early in Andriod's development that they wouldn't bother with any patent licensing with Andriod. Because they would not "sell" the software only give it away and make money down the road from advertising on Andriod devices they figured they where immune. Andriod uses a Java based language but decided not to pay anybody for it, so Oracle is suing them as they are the current owners of Java. Google developed open source implementations of key technology that Apple developed for iPhone and told the world quite clearly they had patents on. Google decided that patents suck and they wouldn't bother even talking to Apple about getting licenses.
Lets face it Google is the guy who goes to a party empty handed and gets drunk on the "free beer" everybody else paid for any brought to the party. Whats more Google gave away other peoples "free beer" to get some girls drunk at the party (HTC,Moto, Samsung) so it could get into bed with them. For some reason Slashdot seems to think that taking other peoples beer at a party to try and get chicks drunk so you can fcuk them is cool. I personally think it's just pathetically cheap and Google deserves a punch in the face for being a dick.