> Your patent did not inspire anyone at Square question is how do we distinguish between patents that "inspired" and those which did not? Or does inspiring ev

> Your patent did not inspire anyone at Square question is how do we distinguish between patents that "inspired" and those which did not? Or does inspiring even matter - anyone can see the "inspiration" on Android from the release of the 1st iPhone (e.g. before and after designs) - yet this fact plus all of Apple's $billions were unable to stop/prevent Android from their clearly inspired copying.