It would be interesting to find out who this Jason Ankeny is?...

I think this is Apple PR department doing some anticipatory damage control, and I suspect we shall see lots more items like this...

The shallow connection of the TREO names used by two companies is intended to ridicule the very idea that PATENTS could, or should be issued to protect any intellectual property. Notice the writer is not attacking the existence of the PATENETS. He makes it sound that intellectual property protected by the patents is similar to protecting the NAME TREO...

It is a well known TACTIC in legal circles handling high profile cases. It is called polluting the Jury pool...

Gil...