So I heard Google and HTC made a multi touch available on Android phone and some fruit company is trying to get a big bag of their money for violating some IP crap.... or did I miss the part of the thread where we already agreed that using your IP is bad, but using big bad corp IP is good? Otherwise explain me silly how patent for such a basic thing even came to existence.

Sometimes you can not make a your own app to do the same thing as commercial, because they did their paperwork and own patents even for a way to swipe your ***. Example is bnetd.