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There is no benefit to creating unique new technology for your products if copycats can at will steal you invention and compete with you using it. This is the something for nothing state of the world. Why invest in new tech if you may be just helping your competitor run you out of business. If they are not willing to innovate why should you do so with no protection. Consumers do have options. Buy the products that have the features they want that were created by or acquired by the companies that sell them. If you want an Apple created feature because you like their way of doing it, buy an Apple product. Thats why we buy Macs. If you want Google's Way buy that. But don't expect one company to dramatically improve a market by their innovation and then just copy their creations. That is just wrong.

But what about the American companies whose sales could be hurt by the copy-cat products being imported? "as Google’s Motorola Mobility division and Apple have been seeking could pose significant harm to consumers by driving up prices and limiting choice."

After reading this nonsense by Posner, I'm not so sure I'd follow his recommendations. His logic regarding political positions makes absolutely no sense at all: http://tpmdc.talking...ofy.php?ref=fpb

genovelle, on 12 July 2012 - 06:07 AM, said:

The issue discussed in the article is primarily standards patents, that is patents that have been incorporated into national or international standards. In such cases it doesn't really make any sense to limit the technology to a single company, since the idea of standards is to allow interoperability. The technology by its nature needs to be made widely available. In general this means the companies who innovate in the area of standards technology do so more for the licensing opportunities than the advancement of their own products.

What is happening now is that companies whose products are failing to compete in the market are trying to use their standards patents to prevent their competition from entering the market. That's clearly a dangerous game to play as it undermines the whole idea of standards and make for a very unstable market.

So it's everyone against Apple. There was NO Droid, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Microsoft and on and on, true or in the form factor smartphone before the iPhone. So what is Apple expected to do. It all started with the crooks at Google. They sat on Apple's board for 5 years and watched the iPhone and it's OS be developed. Then the crooks, excused themselves to then go and create the "Android" OS. The so call legal position they took was, if we steal and sell it, we get in trouble, but if we give it away, there is no crime committed. I'm not sure I agree with that.

So if they need a place to start, I suggest you start with the first crooks, GOOGLE. As much as I have criticized Microsoft in the past, at lease they created a new phone OS and didn't just, in the light of day, rip off the iPhone's OS. They already did that on the Mac.