Call me crazy, but I think we're seeing Apple using the process to defend their inventions, which is exactly what the system was set up to do.
What exactly are they defending their "inventions" from? Other companies making competing products seems to be the biggest thing.
Patents aren't intended to ensure that consumers have rock-bottom prices on the latest consumer gadgets; they're intended to provide inventors with incentives to produce non-trivial inventions, by granting them temporary monopolies on their ideas.
Apple is an extremely successful business. What other incentives are necessary for companies like Apple to want to innovate?
What exactly are they defending their "inventions" from? Other companies making competing products seems to be the biggest thing.
Patents aren't intended to ensure that consumers have rock-bottom prices on the latest consumer gadgets; they're intended to provide inventors with incentives to produce non-trivial inventions, by granting them temporary monopolies on their ideas.
Apple is an extremely successful business. What other incentives are necessary for companies like Apple to want to innovate?