This is why Sam thinks patents should be harder to get. A company patented the smartphone. This is a patent for an invention that already exists, and has for several years. Despite other people inventing it, (which is called "prior art" in patent jargon) and despite the supreme court recently ruling that you can't patent something "obvious" (which is a highly technical term in the law, meaning something that's obvious), the patent office still granted the patent.
Now Apple and Motorola and a dozen other companies have to defend against ridiculous lawsuits. This is dumb.
As I understand it, the people who decide patents are horribly overloaded. The backlog is years long, and there's just not enough people to handle it all. It needs fixing. I may disagree with Sam's solution, but I agree with his diagnosis.
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