Imagine all the time wasted here that could be spent on research, charity, and product development.

> http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579242...

Apple spent like $60 million on the Samsung litigation. Its a drop in the bucket compared to how much they spend on R&D (50-60 times as much).

Yeah, but the Samsung litigation is not the only patent affairs that Apple has.

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-apple-spend-patents-1...

I've seen that article and its bunk. It takes too completely different things and adds them together to say "Apple and Google spend $20 billion on patent litigation." For example they count the Motorola acquisition as $12 billion (IIRC) towards that amount.

Does Apple really spend $3B+ on R&D? That's interesting.