This article is about a peculiarity of the German system (preliminary injunctions, no proportional damages) that make the German system especially harmful to the sued companies.<p>The underlying problem of a patent system that encourages companies in the emerging world of mobile technology to sue each other instead of, as a patent system should, promoting progress - that problem exists in all of Europe, and the USA. Actually, it is probably SLIGHTLY worse in the USA, because of the much wider scope of patents (business method patents, less strict scope for software patents).