Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare

Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by chc on Friday July 27, 2012 @01:56PM (#4302682)

Because Silicon Valley doesn't traditionally have much of a presence in Washington, and there isn't a lot of outrage over patents outside the tech sector. Also, it's hard to change a complicated system in a way that doesn't break it further (as most hackers can attest), so it will move slowly even once the will is there.

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Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by omgsean on Friday July 27, 2012 @04:47PM (#4303508)

>Also, it's hard to change a complicated system in a way that doesn't break it further (as most hackers can attest)

So what you're saying is we need to apply BDD to our legal system?

  describe PatentLaw
    context "a patent troll with a super obvious patent"
      subject { PatentTroll.new(patents) }
      let(:patents) { [mock(:bullshit => true)] }
      it { should be_laughed.out_of(:court) }
    end
  end

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