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This situation drives me nuts, no matter who is suing who. At one time I was a programmer at an IBM hardware and software development lab, and we were told endlessly that "you can't patent software", which I assume was true back then. Now the US has a patent system that's totally out of control, and it seems that the people approving patents often have no clue about the technology and/or prior art.
I think this dysfunctional system will persist like this until some back breaker of case comes up, like a two-person company gets a patent on entering text into a computer with a keyboard, and it sends every company in the industry screaming to the feds and their Congresspeople.
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