In hindsight, it's easy to imagine the Google executives bidding fancy numbers while rubbing their hands in glee saying "Haha, lets drive up the costs for Apple/MS and waste their cash while we're anyway going to complain to the DoJ like we did with the Novell patents and the deal to buy Motorola is almost closed. Haha. What next, Planck's constant or the Avogadro number?".

Not that it actually happened, but certainly plausible given what we know.

Edit: New article supporting this theory:

Larry Page Just Made Apple And Microsoft Look Like Fools http://www.businessinsider.com/suck-it-applesoft-2011-8