[kirarev]

kind of ridiculous that this even makes to court in the first place....

edit: Does anyone know much about the precedence (in court rulings) of ownership of programming languages?

[lostnet]

I think you would have to separate out the different aspects of implementation, syntax and publicity into things that could be patented, copyrighted or trademarked.

You could look at Loglan vs Logban for strongly related issues on what you can and can not copyright in language in general.