I think that if people want to go looking for prior art, they should look in FOSS, maybe even in UNIX and X, where many things were done years ago. Maybe they were ahead of their time, but that in no way invalidates them as prior art.

I am sure that one of these days either Apple or M$ is going to obtain a patent on something that was in UNIX in about 1970, but has only just been "invented" by one or other of the non-innovators. But their patent will have a very short life. They are being watched. Groklaw never sleeps.

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