It's retarded stuff for a retarded jury talking about #angels on pins.
Anyone who has ever done anything more than hacking 5-liners KNOWS that there quite possibly might be an "Intellectual Property" attorney in some office somewhere in the world who might well have your name on a cease-and-desist letter in a not-too-distant future.
But you have to ignore that and hope like hell there isn't any.
Yes, this is the state of the business landscape.
If Google needs a license and didn't pay it - FINE!
But this patent stuff should just lead to public burnings of the naked, mutilated bodies of the legal professional involved as well as the CEOs, CIOs, CTOs pushing that kind of crap.
