Despite the seriousness of the issue, Stofega says patent litigation is unlikely to cause a full-blown disaster for the Android ecosystem.

"You get all [these arguments] between Android fanboys and Apple fanboys ... some of that gets into it and contributes to the hype," he says. Moreover, the latest injunctions against Samsung are far less of a threat to Android than the recent Oracle lawsuit that targeted the platform more directly.

"I don't think this is quite the apocalypse scenario that a lot of people make it out to be," he says.

So are the lawyers the only real winners here? "Exactly," says Stofega.

All three experts agree that one of the biggest losers in the ongoing patent battle is the consumer.