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Apple is just strapping up for the mobile patent wars which have already begun. It's an arms race, and it's irrational to place the blame on just one of the ac

Apple is just strapping up for the mobile patent wars which have already begun. It's an arms race, and it's irrational to place the blame on just one of the actors. To stop the arms race will take mutual action on the part of three or four different companies, or outside intervention. The former is likely to happen eventually, and let's hope that the latter happens sooner rather than later in the form of patent reform.

akiselev 14y ago
Thankfully these patent wars are being settled in a court of law. The system is over complicated and has a lot of loop holes (i.e. look at Oracles often unfactual descriptions of common programming terms in Oracle vs Google) but I think in the end it will eventually balance out where no one has won much more than others, even with Apples big wins over Samsung. The USPTO is starting to address the problem (albeit slowly) and there should be many more decisive rulings in the next decade.