Please declare all relevant patent holders to modern mobile phone and tablet technology must grant Compulsory Licences.
Regards,
The World
This is getting ridiculous - very few of these patents are really innovative anyway!
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing
The important implication of stories like this is not "Giant Company #1 may be hampered by Giant Company #2's intellectual property."
Rather, it's "somewhere, someone who could make the Next Big Thing has just read this and decided not to bother, since making any device with a screen and menus and network access would probably get you sued."
This is exactly the opposite of what intellectual property (at least in the U.S.) is for: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".