Where apple has a market share, patent lawsuits will eventually happen.

Nonetheless, the patent lawsuits have already had a chilling effect on some companies.

He also notes that patent lawsuits increased by about 50 percent in the 1980's.

It seems that not a month goes by that we don't read about yet another patent lawsuit in the software industry.

Usually when one company is a party to a patent lawsuit they look through their portfolio and countersue with whatever they've got.

I expect to see several brutal patent lawsuits filed against Apple in the coming month or so.

Several other patent lawsuits between the two companies are pending, Mentor said.

I wish patent lawsuits would stop getting news time.

But it could still be at risk of a patent lawsuit from Intel.

Apple has to deal with patent lawsuits from others regularly.