The question we ought to ask ourselves is this: Is making a similar feature or technology bad for innovation and competition? Because I'm pretty sure Google d

The question we ought to ask ourselves is this: Is making a similar feature or technology bad for innovation and competition? Because I'm pretty sure Google didn't just start deconstructing and reverse engineering Microsoft's products to make Android. I don't think "patents" should be licensed. Only actual working products and services - like ActiveSync for example, or the AMOLED display technoogy, and so on. Not these "patents" that no company that will license them will use the "inventions" in them to further build their own products. Licensing should happen because you want that technology in your product, not because you're afraid of being sued. The current system is completely messed up.