      I. Google: Market Champion or Buying Time?       II.
Android Faces Death by Multiple Means     III. Shadowy Alliance
Beats Google for IP Treasure Chest      IV. U.S. Antitrust
Regulators May Step In        V. From Bully to Victim: Google's
Unusual Situation     VI. The Big Picture      Comments    
Threshold   RE: This is just getting silly By monitorjbl on
7/12/2011 5:10:17 PM , Rating: 2 I can understand the way you
feel about the system as it stands today, but when it was
written I honestly think its intentions were good. Remember, at
the time the legal system was very friendly to the guy with the
most money or social standing get away with anything he did,
even in America. Our society and people were still pretty
British at the time, we'd been a nation separate from Britain
for about 6 years by the time the first patent was issued.
Monopolies were basically guaranteed to exist without regulation
in a climate like this; some rich guy would very likely come
along and steal your idea, leaving you with