Patent wars hit an all time high in 2012, with a record number of applications made for international computing patents.
With smartphones and tablet companies, coming in the news for their patent related misbehaviors, the value of patents has upped in the last year. This was responsible for a 19% rise in patents.
Incidents like the Apple-Samsung Intellectual Property lawsuit, where Samsung had to pay $1bn as charges to Apple for infringement, or the case where Google bought Motorola for $12.5bn, has lead to the values of patents going up, and more awareness and usefulness being seen in the use of patents to protect intellectual property.
Virtually every major company in the consumers electronics market is involved with Intellectual property litigation with at least one of it's main competitors.
Companies are arming themselves with more patents than ever before.
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