So you think Samsung ought to be able to sue you for patent infringement for buying a cell-phone? Because fan-boy "rah rah fuck-Apple"isms aside, that's litera

So you think Samsung ought to be able to sue you for patent infringement for buying a cell-phone? Because fan-boy "rah rah fuck-Apple"isms aside, that's literally the legal outcome that Samsung is pushing for here. They licensed their patents to Qualcomm, who used them to build chips which were sold to Apple. Now, Samsung is arguing that the exhaustion doctrine should no longer exist and that Apple, by buying those chips, re-infringed on Samsung's patents (and, consequently that you re-infringe those patents when you buy a phone, or someone else's patents when you buy a TV, or a car, or a shoe, or anything). What Samsung is arguing for here would make the already fucked up patent system thousands upon thousands of times worse.