Warning:: Rant incoming!
Reading this article... seriously? They had the jury review over 700 patent questions, and assign dollar values to each of the patents in question, and they tallied it up to over $1 billion... in two days... I cant help but call a lil bit of BS on this one. Sounds a bit too fast to be legit.
Patent wars across varying companies have been on going for years, (Here is an interesting article, if dated.) and in most cases its more of a 'patent arms race' used as a defensive measure to prevent all the companies from suing the pants off of each other... I get the impression at some point down the line this is going to fall apart. My guess is that it will be found that its a bit of dodgy dealing, or it sparks a more aggressive approach to patent issue resolutions. Perhaps not a bad thing, but the biggest company with the most bucks is likely to be standing dominant on a heap of broken companies, not exactly good for the consumer.
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