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nibb[/url]":l0ckctth]The problem is not Apple or Samsung. Its the patent system.

Has someone read this patents?

This is so broad that it applies to everything. TV, Radio, Every Single computer or Internet services, you name it. Even Google can be sued for this patent. Apple can sue the entire computer industry and planet earth with something like this. This is just plain ridiculous, that this patents are approved.

Lets paste it here:
The present invention provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different techniques. Using a plurality of heuristic algorithms to operate upon information descriptors input by the user, the present invention locates and displays candidate items of information for selection and/or retrieval. Thus, the advantages of a search engine can be exploited, while listing only relevant object candidate items of information.

This broadness can work the other way. Being so broad that it covers technologies existing long before Apple came up with any of these patents expose it to multitudes of prior art. It's just a matter of time before that broadness leads to invalidation.

Except that hasn't happened yet. The patent laws make it very hard to invalidate them once granted - giving defacto validity to the broadness. It certainly should be the case that SCOTUS or someone else should have smacked down the absurd broadness (hell, intentional vagueness) of many many patents, but they haven't.