Thing is, suits like this can take years to reach a judgement, if it even gets that far. By that time, who knows how Android will have changed.
Even in light of the suit just being there right now, all those companies show no signs of thinking twice about using Android.
By the time this thing is decided upon (or more likely, settled) the mobile landscape will be nothing like it is today. Things have changed pretty much completely in the last couple of years, and will change even more rapidly in the next couple of years.
In the absence of innovation, people turn to lawsuits.\
IMHO, while ironic, patent lawsuits help innovation. Here is how:
The point of patents is to encourage innovation. Corporations spend billions of dollars on R&D to develop those things, so it's not surprising that if it weren't for patents, those corporations would have little incentive to plonk down wads of cash to come up with something, only to watch somebody else make money off of it.
A patent prevents anyone but the owner of the patent from producing whatever it is that is covered under the patent. Others who want to compete with it will then have an incentive to come up with something else, effectively innovate around the patent.
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Thing is, suits like this can take years to reach a judgement, if it even gets that far. By that time, who knows how Android will have changed.
Even in light of the suit just being there right now, all those companies show no signs of thinking twice about using Android.
By the time this thing is decided upon (or more likely, settled) the mobile landscape will be nothing like it is today. Things have changed pretty much completely in the last couple of years, and will change even more rapidly in the next couple of years.
In the absence of innovation, people turn to lawsuits.
IMHO, while ironic, patent lawsuits help innovation. Here is how:
The point of patents is to encourage innovation. Corporations spend billions of dollars on R&D to develop those things, so it's not surprising that if it weren't for patents, those corporations would have little incentive to plonk down wads of cash to come up with something, only to watch somebody else make money off of it.
A patent prevents anyone but the owner of the patent from producing whatever it is that is covered under the patent. Others who want to compete with it will then have an incentive to come up with something else, effectively innovate around the patent.