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A company is not a "patent troll" unless the company makes a living only doing it. However, what Apple brought against Samsung and what is being described here is a pretty clear-cut case of patent trolling.

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It's not patent trolling if you sue based on patents you implemented in your own products either. That's the whole point of the patent system, dammit.

I don't think you know what patent trolling means, neither how patents work.

Click this patent[1]. Click "Original document". Tell me with a straight face that this is not patent trolling.

They patented "the ornamental design for an electronic device" which is a "thin rectangular cuboid with rounded corners"[2]. Tell me with a straight face this is the point of the patent system.

[1] http://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=USD...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni...

This is an industrial design patent, and there are many like that. [1] Try coping the Coke bottle and you´ll be sued. Try coping the iPhone and you´ll be sued. Simple.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

You do not understand the term "patent trolling". Give up.

So you _do_ think that this is a valid, enforceable patent that represents how the system _should_ work?

It is not clear cut at all. Your bias is showing.

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