An interesting picture was published today in the New York Times. The figure shows the arrows of IT companies at each other.

In defense of Apple and the stormy discussion of their suit on HTC, it’s worth saying that almost all well-known companies at one time or another argued about copyright infringement. Only Google, Palm and Microsoft remained unnoticed in mobile affairs.
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For example, last year Apple was sued by Elan Microelectronics for alleged patent infringement on the touch screen. Nokia sued LG, Samsung, Apple by other companies. Kodak arguing with LG, Apple, Samsung, Sharp, Sony Ericsson
Although patent lawsuits in the IT business are not uncommon, but their increased number among mobile technologies suggests that this niche is now quite promising. Here are the companies trying to grab a bigger piece of cake.
An interesting statement was made by Eric Gippel, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to him, in the course of such proceedings, the parties tried to resolve disputes peacefully, now a wave of “patent trolls” flooded when companies are not interested in using patents, but only want to sue more money as a result of the proceedings.
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New York TimesPS Found the article and translated otkhabrenny chater , so all the pluses and questions ask him