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Google:
We copied Apple’s inventions, so now they’re de facto standards, thus patents shouldn’t be enforceable.

Apple:
Apple’s point is that if you remove the IP distinctions between the two, you remove a key incentive for innovators to innovate. Apple spent billions in research and development to create the iPhone. It didn’t spend that money to create the iPhone’s competition. And this is a point Apple and CEO Tim Cook have hammered home again and again, since the smartphone IP Hundred Years War began.

Article Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120720/google-claims-popularity-has-made-some-apple-patents-de-facto-essentials/#