Goph:
If a company is just interested in acquiring the IP, your conclusion might be true. If they want to buy a company, culture is a critical consideration on early due diligence. That assessment includes shareholder quality and the ability of the company to own its own message. If I was trying to position my company for an acquisition by Google, it would be very bad news to find one of my investors had begun the process with a letter of infringement.
Also, go back and look at the tense of the statements you are trying to compare. One is past, one is present.