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Re:Statement by Apple by kbutler on Thursday February 07, 2013 @05:34PM (#5184969)
But the side effect of apple giving billions of dollars to these patent holders will just cause a gold rush to create similar patents.
Re:Statement by Apple by shmerl on Thursday February 07, 2013 @05:37PM (#5184983)
Not really. Since there is no guarantee the same thing will happen with any other given patent. It's not like each patent has a great value. The ones which affect the critical markets are important. But trolls already push for making such patents to extort money so it doesn't really change the incentive for making more of them. Was there any higher patent rush after Google bought On2?