Congrats there Judge Posner. Now get ready for the inevitable trial when the CAFC overturns your ruling. You don’t like the patent system, tough beans. Congress and THE ONE just overhauled it and re-affirmed it. Apple and Google have every right to enforce their IP. These are not some random patent trolls. They sell products and legitimately believe the other party is infringing it’s rights.
And let me go one further, if there is really anything that is broken it is the Judiciary. We have one that is completely out of control, a judiciary that re-writes laws from the bench or simply declares it doesn’t like certain laws and ignores them. What’s that, the law is unconstitutional!?! No problem, re-write it to make it work. What’s that, a law was st passed by congress that I (the Fed Judge) doesn’t like, just ignore it or find other means to circumvent it.