Originally Posted by motordavid

From my cursory reading of the new/current 'patents war', all of the main competitors spend gillions 'patenting' every minuscule aspect of every product, while buying up exciting patent 'features' and intellectual properties...for the main event of suing each other. The dough these companies spend on legal fees, legal dept, and hired gun white shoe patent firms must be enormous.

No dawg in this fight, though it is probably just round 2 or 3 in the ad nausea 'tech' phone/tab rassle...the WSJ and tech columns are chock full of this kind of spitting at each other, every day.
GL, mD