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I certainly have a problem with it.

I have a rather firm rule that when a company moves its competition from the marketplace to the courthouse, it's a bad sign, one way or another.

That doesn't mean they weren't justified in doing so, but it's still a bad sign, e.g. consumes management and eventually engineer/designer/the creators of this stuff mind share, tells us they're really worried about competition, etc. And as noted in the article, tends to result in reputational damage.