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>Apple surely has an enormous stockpile of software patents, but their lawsuit activity has been pretty limited.

Yes, $100 million on lawsuits in one year is pretty limited.

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/24/apple-spent-staggering...



Clearly Apple does not use bargain basement lawyers.

Secondly, why is that surprising that the largest tech company gets some enormous legal bills? You think Google's budget is just a couple of million?

By the way, Google's going after a chunk of the iOS pie by claiming patent violations: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/09/google-after-2-25-of-every-ip...

So much for being "open".




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