Absolutely. And the licensing had better be cheap for new entrants to the market. The important implication of stories like this is not "Giant Company #1 may b

Absolutely. And the licensing had better be cheap for new entrants to the market. The important implication of stories like this is not "Giant Company #1 may be hampered by Giant Company #2's intellectual property." Rather, it's "somewhere, someone who could make the Next Big Thing has just read this and decided not to bother, since making any device with a screen and menus and network access would probably get you sued." This is exactly the opposite of what intellectual property (at least in the U.S.) is for: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".