Intellectual Property laws are what keeps many lawyers rich. Figure, Apple had a whole slew of patents, some of them for absurd things like “a rectangle with rounded corners”. That led to a lawsuit against Samsung, and while most of the charges were dismissed or ruled against, enough stuck for Samsung to have to pay Apple a fine in the nine-figure range. (I forget the exact number at the moment.) Even if Apple’s lawyers only got 10% to that, it’s no less than $10,000,000 for them, though it’s more likely that they got a bigger percentage than that. And even Samsung’s lawyers got paid pretty damn well; with so much money at stake, you know they wanted the best legal team they could get,
So now that we’ve established how much money can be made with IP lawsuits, even if most are smaller, can you see how some silly stuff may happen due to someone trying to make a buck?