Unwired Planet seeks $8 billion from Apple over standard-essential patents

Florian Mueller for FOSS Patents:Yesterday it became known that Apple is an intervenor (as is Qualcomm with its diametrically opposed views) in the UK Supreme Court appeal of Unwired Planet v. Huawei (consolidated with Conversant v. ZTE)…
Unwired Planet… [is a] non-practicing entity is a patent privateer: it received patents from Ericsson in a transaction I once denounced as a “pseudo-sale” and is basically just serving as a licensing agency that uses the threat of, or