[gruseom]

This sentence took me a long time to read because it so contradicts reality:

In a worst-case scenario for the high-tech industry, if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling it could invalidate many existing software patents or at least make them more difficult to defend in lawsuits.

One wishes there was not such ignorance at the Associated Press.

[WildUtah]

You hear this kind of thing from that patent bar and the lobbying and public relations groups at Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM.

Unfortunately the computer programming profession and startup scene, being made up of smart, quirky, introverted people, has no pull whatsoever with the national media or the political class in Washington. I don't know if they don't know or just don't care that we're so overwhelmingly and thoroughly opposed to the damage patents do to our industry. They appear to be willfully ignorant that there are no examples of software patents that actually promote innovation, since they write stories without even asking for one.

[DarMontou]

Agreed. I'm not sure where the AP got their last statement either...

"Tech companies say software patents have played a critical role in keeping the U.S. at the cutting edge by giving people control over their inventions for nearly 20 years."

[DanAndersen]

I imagine it's true in the sense that they were able to find at least two companies somehow related to technology that would say such a thing.