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by bitwize 3916 days ago
The community of attorneys and jusges handling patent cases didn't have the technical know-how to understand the breadth and depth of fuckery-duckery going on in the realm of obvious software patents, allowing trolls to pull a bankable fast one.

Enough fast ones get pulled and they start catching on. That's who's being educated: the courts and legal community.

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The attorneys handling patent cases damn well better have the technical know-how to understand the subject matter they're litigating. As for the judges, this is the Eastern District of Texas.