Here's the Microsoft v AT&T decision, and I don't see anything like that. And you wouldn't because patent law is that you can't build, use or sell. Patent law does apply to users. That's why the new troll gambit is suing end users, small businesses that use scanners with email.

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• That's what I said - Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 10:41 AM EST

Please explain what the difference is between:

Me: I program a compilable process flow which orders salary largest to smallest and provides a sum at the end

Accountant: enters a list of salaries into Excel, orders them largest to smallest and uses the sum function in excel to provide a sum at the end

So this arbitrary label that is used to try and differentiate between developer/user does not actually change anything when it comes to what kind of act can be viewed for patent infringement.

No patent owner will promise not to sue users because their Lawyers know that simply programming a programmable device is using it. To offer such a promise - and abide by it - turns one's software patents (for purposes of infringement) into zero value. The know that.

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