Final outcome for all those lawsuits?
Higher costs to consumers, strangling of new ideas or new ways of doing things, and a toll both at the end of the driveway for every one using the Internet.
This is the end result of a self-serving, corrupt Congress, bought and paid for by lobbyists dollars to do corporate bidding. IF they had any integrity at all they would have made patents on software, mathematics, genetics and natural processes illegal.
The "Federally sponsored" research is funded by the tax payer but instead of the fruits of the research being in the public domain it is sold to corporations for fractions of a penny on the dollar. The public is then the victim of highly inflated license fee or service charges, which are pure profit.
Republican or Democrat ... a pox on both of their houses. They are equally guilty of selling out for personal gain.