Patents are bad

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:59:08AM +0000, Peter Davis wrote:
>> I have always maintained that software patents are a pretty bad thing and have
>> found that certain companies, particularly market leaders, like them on the
>> basis that a patent portfolio is better than any set of innovations presented
>> by a competitor as patent trading will always see the incumbent on top.
>>
>> Maybe I'm cynical but I usually see large companies only too willing to pay
>> money to patent trolls as a method of validating the software patent system, so
>> it's nice to see a company vigorously trying to overturn a patent troll rather
>> than just paying up.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8197990.stm
>
> That link is dated Aug 12. Don't remember what the outcome was.
>

They got an injunction on the ban on appeal ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/6138568/Microsoft-Word-sales-ban-overturned.html