[georgemcbay]

Looking at the roster of high-dollar patent lawsuits (both successful and unsuccessful) over the past few years, quite a lot of them are the Carmack type.

Bounce scrolling, emoticon keyboard input, unified search across multiple apps, "placing internet information on a tv screen", etc. These are totally obvious ideas, not the type of thing that you spend millions of dollars on researching for years.

[rayiner]

I absolutely agree.