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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 04:31 AM EDT |
It appears to be some kind of stupid legal thing that courts have to be blind
and must assume that patents are valid, which is why validity is not being
argued in this case.
It's certainly very hard for people whose training is based on commonsense or
fairness to understand this. "Justice" doesn't mean the same to the
justice system as it means to the rest of us.
Which of course is why we have this case at all. A real justice system based on
commonsense rather than based on maximizing lawyer fees would have dismissed
Oracle's copyright lawsuit as soon as preliminary examination revealed that it
claimed copyright infringement of an API. It's so obviously wrong because
restricting APIs utterly destroys software interoperability that only a
completely insane legal system allows this case to proceed.
The patent lawsuit would not even have started of course, since the patents
cover software algorithms and hence would never even have been granted by a
sensible justice system in the first place. Looking for prior art isn't even
required, since everything in computing has prior art.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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