Patents for Smartphones

Dr. Kasznik informed us that there are approximately 250,000 active patents going into smartphones. This is around 1/6^th of all the active patents today. An article from techdirt states that this smartphone industry is less than 1% of the US GDP, but somehow contains 1/6^th of all of America’s active patents.

The significance of these numbers is that there appears to be a so-called bubble or boom around the smartphone industry. As so many patents are emerging, people are innovating more and most people use possibly building more technology for an industry that today. As much innovation as there is, there is a lot of conflict and copying that seems to be going on in the smartphone industry. In fact, there is an entire Wikipedia page on “Smartphone patent wars” where one can find the infamous Samsung vs. Apple lawsuit.

I have posted another link to smartphone patent wars that goes into logistics and analysis of the smartphone patent pool and litigations.

Link to Techdirt:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20121017/10480520734/there-are-250000-active-patents-that-impact-smartphones-representing-one-six-active-patents-today.shtml