http://www.osnews.com/story/25825/Google_Verizon_ask_courts_what_s_impossible_to_patent_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:17:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?514431 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514431 Courts hate clarifying something when glossing over it will work. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jburnett) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?514439 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514439 Also, if everything would be clear, the courts would have much less work to do. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?514448 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514448 The only way to stop patent trolls is to sneak patents on patent trolling at the USPTO.

It won't necessarily work, but at worst you may still get some easy money anytime someone patents GUI concepts or smileys Edited 2012-04-17 07:12 UTC Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?514537 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514537 Courts don't mind that. But lawyers do. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shmerl) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?514538 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514538 Can you patent such an ancient idea as racket?-) That what patent trolling boils down to. So they'd reject it because of the prior art Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shmerl) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?514552 http://www.osnews.com/thread?514552 Well, judges don't care about prior art when it's about scrolling in a GUI, why would they care when it's about racket ? Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments