Google’s reexamination requests against two Lodsys patents don’t stand on their own

“While I agree with Google’s senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker that those patents should never have been issued, I don’t consider those reexamination requests — unless they will be accompanied by more forceful and useful measures very soon — a serious commitment to supporting Android app developers against trolls,” Mueller reports. “If this is all that Google does, it’s too little, too late, and calling it “half-hearted” would be an overstatement.”