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This is an industrial design patent, and there are many like that. [1] Try coping the Coke bottle and you´ll be sued. Try coping the iPhone and you´ll be sued. Simple.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

You do not understand the term "patent trolling". Give up.



So you _do_ think that this is a valid, enforceable patent that represents how the system _should_ work?




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