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Originally Posted by GDB
Nothing is free, you may just have to pay indirect costs rather than direct costs. Also, if there's nothing to protect the company's designs, they aren't going to invest in R&D. Why spend millions or billions of dollars just to have someone copy it and release another version within 2 months?
And clearly the market isn't struggling, since either competitors don't mind licensing the patents, or they make their own versions that do well. Unless you think Apple and Microsoft are the only people making smart phones?
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If you actually LOOK at the patents in question, they're mostly bunk that should never have been patentable. And Apple, given its history of blatant borrowing from XEROX, etc. ought to know better.
Samsung isn't guilty of anything other than "making a typewriter that uses keys for input like that guys down the street".
This is more of the US patent system is fatally broken examples.