You said...

"...but I'd think they stumbled onto/over our patents even if we'd have never worked with them"...

Appellate ase law is clear that EDIG can not sue innocent third parties who "Stumble onto/over" EDIG patents by using products which EDIG allowed to be put in the course of commerce using its technology, like the platforms sold by Portal Player to Apple...In fact that will be the precise defense of Apple, as they do not deny using the Portal Player Platforms in starting the I-Pod dynesty...

On the other hand, the historical facts show otherwise, and DM, I am sure, will have all his ducks in order to show that Apple which was half dead after the Instituions replced Jobs with a CEO they brought from Pepsi, or Was it Coca Cola?, leading to their begging Jobs to come back and revitalize the dying Apple by latching on to the Portal Player Platforms, which he used for a while till he could generate his own patents from what he learned from the Portal Player chips containing EIG Tech...

There was no stmbling by Jobs. It was GENIOUS at work showing Wall Street how it is done in the Tech. Industry...

DM has calculated all factors, and if they file against Apple it only could mean they have concluded they can get by the innocent third party defense which Jobs has $12 Billion in cash to prove it?...Lol...Lo...

Gil...

This is total mischaracterization of the facts as we and DM know them...

And you can bet your last cent that when and if DM files against Apple it will not be because Apple's "Stumbled onto/over" EDIG PATENTS...