[Monroe13]

Apple has filed more inter partes review petitions than any other company since the process came available a few years back. IPRs are very expensive for a patent owner to defend (low- to mid-six figures) so from the patent owner perspective Apple definitely fits the description of warmonger.

Of course, if you think these patents are junk that never should have issued, Apple is doing God’s work.

[mlyle]

Sure but the original comment was

> Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents

Implying that Apple is a particularly aggressive company when it comes to patent enforcement. Which I think most all of us can agree they're not Qualcomm or IBM.

[cromwellian]

Apple has sued for plenty of patents before including suing for “data detectors”, eg linkifying onscreen text or adding actions based on regexp or other pattern matching, some trivia and obvious to most engineers and with prior art in old email/news readers.

They also had a habit of suing over trivial and obvious design patents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

However they are no where close to some of the worst offenders.