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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
| If Judge Alsup rules that API SSO can be copyrightable, even with very specific
limitations, it is going to cause utter chaos in the U.S. software
industry.
... Hopefully followed by armed revolution, as angry geeks depose
their government and install a new one that will annul all software patents and
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
Couldn't agree more........except I believe the judge NOW fully understands WHY
it's been a waste of time.
I hope he states this explicitly, so that later cases can benefit from his
rulings.
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| Authored by: BJ on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
You got two points 3.
bjd
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| Authored by: jbb on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
| We all know this decision is a very big deal. The judge is very aware of this
too. In addition, both sides have means and motive to appeal his decision,
whichever way it goes, all the way to the Supreme Court. To top it all off,
when this whole thing started almost two years ago the judge did not know what
an API even was.
When I was reading our reporter's account of some of the
testimony during the patent phase of the trial, I was struck by the insightful
questions the judge asked. And it was not just his questions, he seemed to be
learning a lot from the answers. It occurred to me that the trial portion of
the process was the only time the judge got to hear from non-lawyers directly.
I can see that this would be a very valuable source of information for him.
It
makes perfect sense to me for the judge to delay his decision as long
as:
- He was still gaining information that might help
him write a more
bulletproof decision, and
- He was not prejudicing the outcome of the
trial.
This fits in with his attempt to avoid the damages phase of the
jury trial. If they skip the damages phase then there is no harm in the judge
taking all the time he needs before writing his decision on API copyrights.
I
think it is quite likely the judge has already decided which way he is going to
go on the question of API copyrightability but he still may want more time and
information so he can make his written decision as bulletproof as possible.
This is a really important decision. If it gets appealed to and heard by the
Supreme Court it may well become the law of the land. I see no reason why Judge
Alsup should rush it.
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Our job is to remind ourselves that there
are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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