Conflict may be unavoidable, but that doesn't mean it requires public resources to resolve, nor that it needs resolution at all. Even without patent disputes, t

Conflict may be unavoidable, but that doesn't mean it requires public resources to resolve, nor that it needs resolution at all. Even without patent disputes, there would be a "conflict" between android and iOS -- that doesn't mean we would need the courts to step in and figure out which os is better -- the conflict is kind of the point. We could clearly today have either more or less protections: you can pretty easily imagine a system with less patents or one with more and stricter forms of legal protection. A system with more forms of protection would probably see more legal battles. A system with less protection would see more market battles with focus on winning over consumers vs juries. The system we have today isn't some divinely revealed sweet spot, so the attitude that "conflicts are inevitable and this is how we solve them, thus there's nothing we can do about it" is disingenuous.