Transcript of Google patent infringement trial

RTI Lawyer: Your Honour, Google has flagrantly and knowingly infringed on the patents of RTI, we ask that you award my client huge sums of money in compensation. In fact we heard that Google had pots of cash so make a big one, please.
Judge O.N.Theball: It says here in your complaint that Google's actions have damaged RTI's reputation and that of its products? What products do you make, exactly?
RTI Lawyer: Well, we don't actually make any products.
Judge O.N.Theball: And your reputation in the market? How do others perceive you?
RTI Lawyer: We are known as the company who invented Least Cost Routing to minimize the cost of a call by choosing a different operator.
Judge O.N.Theball: Not as a patent troll, then? So, how much do Google actually charge for their calls?
RTI Lawyer: Ummm...
Google Lawyer: Let me help out here; we don't charge anything for calls.
Judge O.N.Theball: RTI Lawyer, what exactly is the basis for your complaint?
RTI Lawyer: Ummm...
Judge O.N.Theball: Case dismissed, stop wasting my time!
RTI Lawyer: Ummm...
Google Lawyer: See ya!

[ I'm not going to go into the real arguments for why a patent on Least Cost Routing should not go beyond the device that sits between a phone and the network.
RTI may have a case for going after the manufacturers of USB splitters that allow calls to come through to normal phones. Good Luck suing them! At a network level it would be ludicrous to claim dominion over the concept of routing a call over the least expensive route.
But enough said, this doesn't even merit the attention it has received so far!]