Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit (opensource.com)

If you read Groklaw, you will note that the judge involved was Judge Randall Rader, who normally spends most of his time on the Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a guest judge. (He is normally handling the appeals from all the different courts, having to do with patents). The speculation is the court of appeals understands there is a problem, and was sending a message to the lower court.

In any case, we were very happy to have him as the judge: though obviously fixing the real problem would be a better solution.

We aren't out of the woods yet, in fact, this is just an early round in the wars, unless Bilski changes the equation entirely.