The only conclusion I can draw from that report is that somehow Google is guilty of "Aggressive litigation tactics" by defending itself instead of bending over and taking it from Apple and Microsoft.

I don't know how Matt Levy can be so pleased about this report, when it disparages one of his own constituents (Google is a member of the CCIA), and shows Obama has a total lack of understanding about what the smartphone patent wars are all about.

This leave sme wondering if Matt himself knows what the smartphone wars are all about - bogus software patents that should never have been issued used for purely anti- competitive purposes by Apple & Microsoft to attack Google.

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• Defence is the best form of anti-trust. - Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 03:07 PM EDT

From the pdf:

... especially in software-related patents because of the relative novelty of the technology and because it has been difficult to separate the "function" of the software (e.g. to produce a medical image) from the "means" by which that function is accomplished

It's not difficult at all.

Abstract = "can be done with the mind"

Physical = "you can touch it"

To get an image, you need a physical device called a camera.

The alternative is to draw/paint the image yourself.

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