"In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other’s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice — meaning the parties can’t come back to fight over the same patents — and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week."
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
Nice little gloss on the TAL take on software patenting.
This is absolutely worth the hour. Intellectual Ventures really is that bad.