Originally Posted by kane

Maybe I am wrong here, but it doesn't sound like he pulled an Acacia and just bought a bunch of patents then sued to make money in a shakedown with them. It sounds like his company owns a bunch of patents and these other companies have used his ideas to make money.

I guess we will find out just how much there is to this story.

Here is more from the suit:
The 15-page complaint singled out Google for special treatment, saying that Interval Research provided both funding and assistance to the then-fledgling search firm in 1998, the year founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated the company.

Included with the complaint was a 1998 screenshot of Google's "About" page that showed Interval Research credited as one of four sources of research funding, and one of two outside collaborators.

It sounds like maybe he feels like he is owed a nice chunk of that Google money. Also, if Google used technology that he supplied then and didn't pay him properly for it, he might have a case.