Black--No, of course if Google has a legitimate workaround things change in a big way. I'm assuming that Google does not have a workaround. In fact I'm hoping that their continued claims of a workaround prove to be nothing more than a contemptuous misrepresentation to the court.
If you're assuming that Big Bad Goog is right, and Vrng & Co. is wrong, on the workaround many things change. I'm not in that camp.
I do agree that Google and its officers have influential friends in high places (just look at the campaign contribution info and I don't like what the prez said about patent trolls) BUT there comes a time when we have to hope that our courts don't allow themselves to be influenced politically. If the opposite is true, we're all screwed.
Except for the delays, I'm very, very optimistic about the final outcome here.