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rayiner on Dec 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Paten...

I'm sure someone has, but I think this may be an example of either: 1) setting the ask for a negotiation high then bargaining down; or 2) the engineers calling the shots.

codeka on Dec 10, 2012 [–]

It could just be a symbolic thing, maybe they don't actually expect anything to come of it.

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