Tech's Patent Arms Race Fuels Mobile's Doomsday Machine | Wired Business | Wired.com

Great infographic and cold war metaphor explaining the shots fired in the smartphone patent race, thus far.

I think the cold war metaphor is very interesting, mostly because it likely won’t be too different from the outcome - the winner will be determined by who has the strongest economic base as hostilities continue, not by who has the largest arsenal of patents ready to deploy.