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Fun patent of the day

Posted Aug 22, 2008 17:14 UTC (Fri) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
Parent article: Fun patent of the day

Uh oh, better scrounge the kernel to remove any patent infringements of this one! ;)

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Don't forget KSR v. Teleflex

Posted Aug 22, 2008 19:26 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

KSR v. Teleflex puts the legal definition of "obvious" closer to the obvious definition of "obvious" so a lot of the lower-quality software patents are worthless now, probably including this one.

Thousands of lawyers, decades of work, all for nothing.

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Don't forget KSR v. Teleflex

Posted Aug 28, 2008 12:28 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Um, I think this one might have other grounds for invalidity besides obviousness...