I find most people that want to do away with IP protection have never actually chased the conditions where IP makes the rewards worthwhile the risks. They happily work for others and seldom take the risks.

I find both your questions highly related and anything but “vastly different”. Most people that work hard at creating something (or trying to figure something out) still want some type of reward and recognition for that effort in the end.

“So you truly think that software and design patents have a place in the tech landscape?”

Absolutely. Without question. That is not to say some of this has not gotten ridiculous but the industry benefits when companies actually spend resources to come up with different methods. BTW: Have you actually written an Office Suite?

Likewise, you need to look up what “trolling” means in terms of patents because you don’t seem to have a grasp on it. If you are actually protecting a product you sell (as in a non-IP product), you are not trolling. Lodsys is a troll. Apple and Samsung are not.

So you truly think that software and design patents have a place in the tech landscape? You realize that I can write my own Office suite and probably step on thousands if not millions of the same lines of code that MS wrote, just because there are only so many ways to do certain things. You also realize that generic shapes and accents have for the most part all been done somewhere else right? Let the product stand on its own merit, not how a company took existing ideas and patented them before everyone else. That’s called trolling

I find most people that think technology patents are worthless are people that are consumers of others hard work and have never put forth 1-2 years of their life chasing a dream; trying to create something new and unique with the hope of being rewarded for it in the end.

Now it’s your turn Apple.