[citation][nom]montezuma[/nom]If AUO was such a great company, then they would have a quarter of the global LCD market, not LG. This is just going to hurt consumers in the end.[/citation]
That is an absurd claim. AUO (AU Optronics) is one of the world's largest suppliers of LCD panels. If you've ever used a monitor manufactured by BenQ, ViewSonic, Acer, Samsung, HP, or Dell, there's a good chance that you've used a display with a panel manufactured by AUO. According to the CompuWorld article linked above, AUO is the third-largest manufacturer of display panels in the world, accounting for just over 17% of of the world's market in March, 2010.
All things considered, it hardly seems reasonable to assume that this is just "patent-trolling".