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Re:Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github by icelancer on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @02:15PM (#4539627)
A close friend of mine defends major smartphone companies as well as other tech companies. He's told me the average presiding judge has no idea how to connect to the Internet, much less understand JPG compression (an actual case my friend worked on).

It's probably both.

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Re:Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github by andreasvc on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:05PM (#4539909)
I don't think the judges over there are substantially more ignorant about technology than the average judge in Kentucky or Montana, etc. They can call in experts to advise on technical questions. I'm afraid technical knowledge wouldn't help much, they have this cottage industry of patent lawsuits and they'd probably prefer things to stay as they are.
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