yeah my thoughts exactly, Coffee. It amounts to nothing more than domain squatting and other lameass ways of cash farming.
I feel you shouldn't be able to patent such things anyway. It's too fundamental. a particular and very detailed implementation, sure, but not a broad idea. So I agree with your overhaul idea. you shouldn't be able to patent that concept anymore than you can patent an automobile with an engine and transmission (only a very specific implementation)
On the other hand, if that's what their patent is, and the cell processor can be proven to use it's ideas,
they still won't care. Sony is too big. they eat little companys for breakfast, just like M$