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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 04:10 PM EST |
Companies took a gamble on this, knowingly or not. They had to know there was
always the possibility that their patents may suddenly become invalid (isn't
this a possibility anyway?).
If the patents all become invalidated in one fell swoop... well, sorry, that's
life. Worse things have happened, like the current litigation mess in software
patents at the moment.
Besides, I seriously doubt the big boys are going anywhere just because they
lost their software patents. I doubt that little firms will be terribly affected
as they are not really in a good financial position to enforce them anyway.
The only companies that will be badly hurt are the patent trolls, which will no
longer have software patents to sue over.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 04:39 PM EST |
I fear the answer is a concern for the court. While it may be
a consummation devoutly to be wished, somehow I'm not
waiting for this court to say "Oops, we've goofed all these years."
And just supposing they do, can we expect a Presidential revocation
of all their appointments?
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- nope - Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 03:12 PM EST
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