> No one is trying to stop them from selling smartphones, all we're saying is: make your own. Make your own designs, make your own phones, and compete on your own innovations.
A world where every product is completely differentiated from its competitors is neither possible nor desirable.
You can't stop Samsung from making smartphones, they're significantly entrenched already, but you can stop a startup. This ruling is a validation of the patent system as it currently exists. Just as MPEG LA can prevent startups from competing in video, the range of smartphone patents are thick enough to prevent any newcomers into the industry.
If Apple owns bouncy lists and Google owns shadowy lists and RIM owns whatever it is they do, what is a startup to do? Come up with something that is different just to be different, hope that it's not patented by someone, as I'm sure trolls are rushing to patent every variation of end-of-list animations possible, or more probably, not bother getting into the business in the first place.
A world where every product is completely differentiated from its competitors is neither possible nor desirable.
You can't stop Samsung from making smartphones, they're significantly entrenched already, but you can stop a startup. This ruling is a validation of the patent system as it currently exists. Just as MPEG LA can prevent startups from competing in video, the range of smartphone patents are thick enough to prevent any newcomers into the industry.
If Apple owns bouncy lists and Google owns shadowy lists and RIM owns whatever it is they do, what is a startup to do? Come up with something that is different just to be different, hope that it's not patented by someone, as I'm sure trolls are rushing to patent every variation of end-of-list animations possible, or more probably, not bother getting into the business in the first place.