Also, at least one of the affected models is an ultra book where the battery cannot be removed, good luck fixing that. (The Pin hole reset might do it but I'd be crossing everything).

In the sense that nobody uses it as a general term to mean a generic vacuum cleaner, whereas Hoover is used in that sense even if said machine happens to be made by Dyson.

It's the "obvious" bit that will get it kicked, the patent has to be innovative and "not obvious to one skilled in the art" and this blindingly is obvious.

Exactly, so it isn't "not obvious to a practitioner in the art" which is the requirement for patent grant. Should get tossed immediately when Google appeal.

No, they use about 100W if they use LED backlights.

They're going to sentence him to something like 700 years in the slammer anyway so he's never going to be in a position to repay any cost of anything they might try and recover from him. He'll die bankrupt in jail.