You can't run a tech company these days without infringing on someone's patents, and if you feel that you're infringee material, the Eastern District of Texas is the place to set up shop. SimpleAir, a Texas-based "inventor-owned technology licensing company," took Google to court over push messaging systems used in Android. Last month a jury found that Google infringed on all five of the asserted claims, leaving the company liable to pay up to $125 million for damages. Now we have a final number: $85 million.

The math here is simple. First, the jury found that Google's Cloud to Device Messaging (CD2M) and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) infringed on all five claims made in patent number 7,035,914. Google felt it owed $6 million. SimpleAir demanded $127 - 146 million. Not wanting to go through too much trouble, they came together and settled on the average.

Okay, maybe my math's a little off.

Google's far from the only company SimpleAir has targeted. Previous lawsuits took aim at Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and others. Regardless, Google's not out of the woods just yet. SimpleAir owns the patent until 2017, and damages for Google's ongoing and future infringements will be addressed in later proceedings. After all, SimpleAir doesn't want Google (or any other developers, for that matter) not to use its technology. The company just wants their money, and Google has tons of it.