No probably about it, it definitely goes on all the time. Although whether it's about companies who genuinely think they invented something or whether it's about companies who think they can try it on and make a fortune out of it is debatable.
I don't get any pleasure from seeing Amazon get a spanking. Well I do, but not because of Amazon. Rather because I think the patent scheme has been systematically abused for decades, and it needs to change. I'm as pro-intellectual property rights as anyone, but a huge number of patents are abusive.
I don't get any pleasure from seeing Amazon get a spanking. Well I do, but not because of Amazon. Rather because I think the patent scheme has been systematically abused for decades, and it needs to change. I'm as pro-intellectual property rights as anyone, but a huge number of patents are abusive.