[tikhonj]

My understanding is that the person holding the patents in question came up with the "invention" while employed by UCSF.

Amusingly, ViolaWWW, one of the pieces of prior art used by the defendants, was written by a Berkeley student.

[a_a_r_o_n]

That settles it, we'd better not let students write code, in case that code invalidates patents produced by students' code.