There are individuals and groups of people who make a living at suing other people in this country of lawyers called the USA. That is what this looks like. A lot of patents are issued for ideas and that is contributing in causing all this crap.
Glenn

What?!

By some unusual metric, perhaps.

As much as I dislike the overhyped, underspecced iPhone, a quick google seems to show Minerva Industries are nothing but a patent cash machine.

They don't even show any products on their products page, just lists of patents they own!

Honestly, this kind of "business" is strangling innovation, who wants to spend a fortune on R&D making a product when someone else already has a bit of paper that vaguely describes it, but does absolutely none of the technical leg-work.