Patent Craziness

While perusing IT related blogs and articles online I stumbled upon the “Tech’s Biggest Flops of 2012 (So far)” slideshow. While most of it was predictable, slide 15 introduced a startling fact, that while we all know it, is staggering.

All the big tech guns are suing all the other big tech guns. But did you know that in total they are fighting over a massive 8,232,526 patents? That’s according to PCWorld who created the slideshow. Another illustration is this infographic from visua.ly. How can you look at that and not think this is all crazy?

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