VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

It's up to the supreme court and they ruled some years ago in a manner that is interpreted as allowing software patents.

Currently in order to get something declared unconsitutional you'd have to get into a patent case and then fight your way up to the supreme court and get them to agree with you.

If you want to go that route I hope that you have:

1. About 5 years or so.
2. Best lawyers in the country
3. Several million dollars burning a hole in your pocket.

Because that's about what it would take to even have a ghost of a chance to win a case like that.

And everybody and their mom will be fighting you. For two reasons:

* There is still doubt that pure software patents are 100% legal.
* There are a lot of very good lawyers that make very good money on software patent BS.

So if you....
Win: You put a large number of very wealthy and experienced legal people out of work.

Lose: You essentially destroy any chance of fighting software patents until you get Congress to pass a law making software patents illegal.