We need a major tech company like Apple to take a stand against these types of lawsuits before we will see any real policy change.
I can't imagine Apple counsel was very happy about that.
If anything Apple's stood in the way of patent trolls and threatened to inject themselves in any lawsuit filed for the Lodsys patent, making it much harder for Lodsys to win or back out.
They've been engaged in a patent war with Samsung, Google, et. al, but this is a whole different game. I'm not saying I approve of this, but they haven't been picking on little companies.
Microsoft, by contrast, is making hundreds of millions in license fees for questionable patents impacting Android devices.
It's Intellectual Ventures that was co-founded by two former senior Microsoft employees that's the worst offender by far.
Those companies that invested in IV probably did it for strategic reasons since barring that they'd probably end up targets.