So how would things have turned out if we dropped all the software patent claims and Apple could only sue on trade dress? Apple is a hardware company. A hardw

So how would things have turned out if we dropped all the software patent claims and Apple could only sue on trade dress? Apple is a hardware company. A hardware enclosures design company, really; they outsource most everything to do with producingthe hardware. For a company like Apple, trade dress claims make sense. Software patents seem a little fishy. (Even for software companies software patents are a bit fishy. That's why they've traditionally relied on copyright. And if I'm not mistaken that's why the USPTO is soon going to be issuing new rules and a new system to deal with software/business method patents since they cause so much concern.)