It does seem like the Chocolate Factory is coming to its senses
Hang on, Google aren't the ones slinging patent crap constantly. That's Apple and Microsoft, both who were caught off-guard counting their mountains of money. Their only defence was lame patent games.
Google's purchases of patents were purely a defensive strategy against the patent scumbags...
A Little bit out of date, but still mostly relevant:
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/RNGS/2011/AUG/PATENT_CI.jpg