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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by tptacek on Monday July 18, 2011 @06:32PM (#2778631)
So the only reason you aren't a trillionaire is scruples?
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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by azakai on Monday July 18, 2011 @07:39PM (#2778893)
No, the reason is that the time to file all those thousands of patents, and the filings fees, makes it infeasible for normal people.

But very feasible for IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc. - companies with many laywers and engineers, and lots of money.

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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by petegrif on Monday July 18, 2011 @07:09PM (#2778779)
Of course - it's so easy that only someone of high moral character wouldn't do it.
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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by hn_decay on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:01PM (#2778954)
Aside from what azakai mentioned (it tends to be large companies that are the biggest culrpits for laying patent minefields), I have no doubt that a lot of people are doing exactly that. The now obvious value of software patents -- artifacts that for decades were literally little more than harmless curiousity -- has led to an explosion in filings.
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