Did he get blind sided by the Swiss National Bank when they intervened in the FX market so forcing the Swiss Franc down by 8% against the Euro in day?

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Google was blind-sided during the Nortel patent sale and there is a lot of competition for the InterDigital patents, so I am sure the Motorola deal is perceived by Google as a huge win.

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Minshew was blind-sided by the Levo League.

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