Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 6th Oct 2009 21:43 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
The patent wars rage on. Eolas, a company that before won US$585 million from Microsoft in 2003 in a suit that challenged the use of ActiveX and AJAX, is now after twenty-three separate companies allegedly because their precious patent was spoiled by all of them.
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Leaving out the specific argument of software patentability (I fall firmly on the side of those who think software should NOT be patentable AT ALL), the problem with this particular part of your post is that patent law doesn't require the patent holder to have a product to protect. There is no such requirement. If their were then I might feel a bit differently about patents in general, but as the law stands now they absolutely do more harm than good in the majority of cases.