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rmm200[/url]":3fettshw]Companies abusing the patent system should have ALL of their patents invalidated. Yes Apple, I am looking at you!

Suing over a granted patent is not abusing the patent system.
The problem is that the patents in question never should have been granted in the first place.

The abusing part isn't suing about a patent.

It is applying for something, which really shouldn't be patentable, again and again and again with minimal alterations until finally it slips through.

 

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HisDivineOrder[/url]":1ot2et8h]Too bad Apple thinks they invented everything. Perhaps they might innovate again if they stopped litigating so much...

Don't be so quick to dismiss.
I recall vividly the industry reaction when the first iPhone came out. Many players disbelieved what it was claimed to do. Specifically Nokia. For nearly 2 years the manufacturers were in chaos formulating a reaction plan.
Microsoft went comatose. Samsung decided to reverse engineer.

What did they reverse engineer? I can certainly see how Apple paved the way for Samsung to make a similar product. But it wasn't a technical revolution that needed reverse engineering. It was a PDA with a phone...

To be honest, the icons they use for their Android skin are rather (too) similar to Apples. However, that is more a case of trade dress than an actual patent.