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Folks might be wondering what took so long for Paul Allen to makes how move. I actually don’t think it has taken so long. Patent infringement cases take time to build.

The challenge for companies like Google is that Paul Allen has resources to back up his lawsuit. If I were Google, Apple, Facebook, AOL, Netflix, and Office Depot, I would worry about one another. I know nothing about the case theory behind the lawsuit so I am just guessing.

The problem with a lawsuit like this is that the individual companies in the lawsuit need to stand together. All one defendant has to do is settle or lose their case and then “they all fall down”. Heck, I have no idea how this case will turn out but Paul Allen is not exactly small potatoes.