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I wish I had a link handy, but the massive lawsuits firing back and forth between phone tech companies (apple, google, samsung, etc.) would argue against the Mutually Assured Destruction cold war theory for patents.

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I think that Apple/Google/Samsung each still think that they can somehow "Win" the patent war. It should eventually become blindingly obvious to all of them that they can't.

Once rolling, there is no stop to the war until there is a winner declared by media.

The article states that Samsung lost a lawsuit in the US against Apple, however it fails to mention other high-profile results of Apple v. Samsung legal rulings -- namely where Apple had to publicly apologize in the UK and issue a prominently-featured statement as such on their UK website.

Other nations have ruled in favor of Apple, and vice versa, which further adds to the confusion of who is a victor.

The real problem here starts when the big guys realize they are all untouchable, and start fighting proxy patent wars with each other by brutalizing small defenseless companies.

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