Having now proven they are NOT competitive and cannot win without using dirty pool, Microsoft, Apple, and BlackBerry have formed a shell company, a patent troll company called Rockstar and have had their 32 employee sock puppet sue Google yesterday using patents granted a defunct company called Northstar, a bit player that worked as a kind of patent troll even back when it was alive and kicking.

(Rockstar the sock puppet having bought out the moldering corpse of Nortel a while ago along with the corpses of a lot of other failed defunct telecom companies).

Despite Microsoft, Apple, and BlackBerry's very best hopes, Nortel was a small bit player, running around behind Motorola and the other real players trying to stake claims to technology invented by others.

And lo and behold, they are suing Google over things Google invented, and if you want to go back in history for previous technology these items were built upon, why then you are dealing with Motorola's old intellectual properties.

Now, suing people for nothing really and running FUD campaigns while doing it is a Microsoft old timer's trick, so Ballmer is still running true to form in his last days as CEO.

But remember, 1.8 billion plus new activations for next year alone is a lot of potential money, even if you only actually won a penny a piece in the actual final settlement .....

So the timing of the specious lawsuit is about right, the android activations and shipments are just now going to the totally crazy high levels where they will stay for the next year or so.


1,800,000,000
         100                        1.80 million dollars is still a whole lot of money you could potentially get whlle "losing" a specious lawsuit

Expect other people to sue Google as well, since the same math applies for them too.

Where did you even find this information? I'm curious... I mean blackberry is almost irrelevant completely now. The only thing they were really great at was corporate security. Now... they're pretty much irrelevant.