iDW – Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform

In the last few weeks, the smartphone industry appeared to produce more lawsuits than phones. Apple [1] briefly managed to stop the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all of Europe, and is now going after the whole Galaxy line. Back Stateside, Google [2] first complained that Microsoft [3] and Apple were using “bogus patents” to target Android [4] , then spent $12 billion for Motorola and