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Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME by munk-a on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:39PM (#21076374)
Or alternatively you'd manage to take down all of microsoft's patents for that one time they thought a paper clip telling people what to do was innovative... Less jokingly, I'm sure microsoft has a dumb patent or two kicking around, that doesn't mean their entire suite is BS.
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Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME by yellowapple on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:52PM (#21077119)
There's a difference between having a handful of dumb patents among a sea of valid ones v. having a portfolio composed entirely of dumb patents.

There's also a difference between sitting on a handful of dumb patents v. most or all of your patent litigation cases being over dumb patents.

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Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME by munk-a on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:15PM (#21077252)
There isn't a difference unless that's outlined in the law or it's interpretation and I don't know how you'd sanely define things to disallow abuse here.
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