In this article it shows us yet another example of a company suing another over a patent. Looking at the news on Google, this seems to happen a lot. What is going on? Well within certain industries there is tons of competition. You know how it is; for example a company comes out with a cell phone that takes pictures, soon after every other company has one. Companies on the top are always filing patents on their new technologies. Once the patents have been filed companies competing with them I guess should make sure that they are not violating the patent.

Well maybe they check closely, maybe they don’t, but once a product hits the market that appears to be like another company’s patent/product, then it makes sense that the company will go to work to get justice.

So what does this mean for the consumer? Well, I can say it does not lower prices on products. Think about it, if these companies are in court constantly suing each other, what do you think will happen?

But what can we do? Well nothing as far as I know. We want the new products, the companies have them, and so off we are to buy them. It would be nice though if they could all get along, it would surely save us money.