I think you&#x27;re conflating &quot;brilliant&quot; with &quot;obvious&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s like if someone was called brilliant for suggesting that we should turn our phone screens off when they aren&#x27;t in use to save battery.  It&#x27;s just the obvious solution, and patenting it and enforcing that patent is just meant to create obstacles for competitors.<p>Apple thinks it own the very idea of the smartphone.  They even claimed they owned curved corners...  It is nice to see them get a taste of their own medicine.<p>It would be great if they won, just so we could use the precedent to make them lose all of the asinine lawsuits they start.