Google Inc.’s potential purchase of the online site Groupon Inc. made headlines this week because of the eye-popping price: $6 billion.

The price might be right if Groupon’s patent turns out to withstand court challenges by competitors, said Patrick Arnold, a partner at McAndrews, Held & Malloy, a Chicago intellectual property boutique.

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