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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
That's a good question but IANAL and don't know the answer.
What's more interesting is if the court deems google infringe the patents, have
google appeal which again finds they infringe, etc all the way to SCOTUS. And
running in parallel, have the USPTO invalidate the patent, have oracle appeal,
have it invalidated again, etc to it's final conclusion. This then seems one of
the best examples of the absurdities of the patent system (and legal system that
presumes patent validity coming from an organization with such a poor record)
which forces unwarranted legal or licensing costs on a whole industry sectors
bringing with it associated economic inefficiencies which only serve to take
away from development itself; something the patent system was meant to
encourage.
Seems to me that software patents in particular are just an economic barrier to
thriving small and competitive business and only favor the multinational
conglomerates that seem fearful of these small competitive businesses and start
ups.
Its a mess and shameful. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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