Apple And Google Settle; Good, The Patent System Seems To Work

and have agreed to settle their various patent suits against each other. This was all, of course, about whatever Android might have taken or not taken from Apple and whatever Apple’s iOS might have done to infringe on any of the patents that Google brought on board when it bought . This doesn’t affect the Apple and Samsung cases though. Florian Mueller is, as ever, good on the technical details of this. My interest is, also as ever, in the economics of this. It’s evidence that while horribly expensive and tortuous, the patent system does actually work.