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Re:Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent syste... by yesyes on Friday June 08, 2012 @08:51PM (#4086813)
"OK, kids, time to stop squabbling in the sandbox and go home."

The problem is that these kids have weekly allowances in the hundreds of thousands. And most lawyers do not discriminate among potential clients by maturity level, they discriminate by net worth. They are happy to become instruments of a sandbox squabble, for a price. The kids don't do the squabbling. They pay lawyers to do it for them.

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Re:Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent syste... by chives on Saturday June 09, 2012 @02:15AM (#4087404)
"OK, kids, time to stop squabbling in the sandbox and go home."

I could say the same for our judicial system up until now. Slam them all day if you'd like (referring to the judge), but all the patent troll rulings up to this point has precipitated this state of affairs.

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