This whole Ptab issue, three years and running this June, started when Apple challenged the validity of the Patents. I highly doubt they did so as a public service. Then, on appeal they chose to bypass any argument on validity and used the ex parte communication for their appeal. The preliminary judgment by the Ptab favoured VPLM. All that effort by a company not worried about an allegation of infringement. C'mon, you must at least concede there is reason to suspect there is infringement. Proving it may be a challenge, but, it seems Vplm has a good legal team and has the money to pay them. Its your choice to equate this to a lottery, if so, I'm in on some of those tickets.