There's a war on, and it could hit your smartphone. Aslew of lawsuits are rocking the smartphone industry as nearly every major manufacturer fights to get cash from the others for using its patents, to block its opponents' products from being imported into the U.S., or just to bleed out their energy paying for lawyers rather than engineers.
That could mean fewer smartphones, devices missing features, or a general slowdown of innovation in the future.
On a panel at the State of the Net Conference in Washington, DC this week, I spoke with Judge Theodore Essex of the International Trade Commission, who