Well, in the case of Apple, they wanted Samsung to effectively stop selling phones based on, among other things, a design patent where "rounded corners" was jus

Well, in the case of Apple, they wanted Samsung to effectively stop selling phones based on, among other things, a design patent where "rounded corners" was just about the only protectable element identified in court that was actually present in the Samsung models at issue. So yes, Apple is not an NPE, but given that their lawyers selected their best patents for trial, I found their arguments in court rather trollish.