Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless

twitter writes "P.J. concludes her look at the Bilski decision: 'you'll recall patent lawyer Gene Quinn immediately wrote that it was bad news for Microsoft, that "much of the Microsoft patent portfolio has gone up in smoke" because, as Quinn's partner John White pointed out to him, "Microsoft doesn't make machines." Not just Microsoft. His analysis was that many software patents that had issued prior to Bilski, depending on how they were drafted, "are almost certainly now worthless." ... He was not the only attorney to think about Microsoft in writing about Bilski.'"

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justice is for the rich

[girlintraining]

Apple won't have these problems because Apple likes to sue individuals and small businesses who can't put up enough of a legal fight to contest their patents. Like RIAA, they've made a killing off low legal literacy in the private and small business sector. And each case that gets settled or steamrolled in court can then be used to set precident. There is no justice for the poor and the patent system is the second-best example of this. The first, of course, being family court. -_-