A similar story could be told about Steve Jobs and Apple. Anecdotally at least, Steve hired the patent litigators (who had represented Apple in a patent infring

A similar story could be told about Steve Jobs and Apple. Anecdotally at least, Steve hired the patent litigators (who had represented Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit with Taiwanese MP3 maker Creative Technologies over the iPod) to patent the iPhone. But that was more targeted than the spray and pray approach.