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Unfortunately, big companies with shipping products have every incentive to settle by cross-licensing & royalties.

What we need is someone with deep pockets to form a patent troll and actually block shipping products rather settle. This will force big companies to lobby congress to fix software patents.

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Haha - fooled you!

If you tried this, you would probably fail!

The government (lobbied by big companies) will convince the courts to block your injunction and force you to settle. You know, "risking national security by ruining the economy" or something.

HTC is a Chinese company, and Apple makes all their gadgets in China. This has very little to do with the US, except that we are the ones paying for the gadgets.

E.g., NTP vs RIMM.

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