I hope Microsoft wins this case(I hate them but I hope they win)

armchair_warrior

ON Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether to fundamentally alter the way American patent law is litigated. Specifically, in the context of an otherwise unremarkable patent dispute, the Court has promised to decide the degree to which juries should be allowed to question whether a patent should have been issued at all.

It’s a critical issue: the current approach, under which juries are explicitly discouraged from questioning a patent’s validity, all too often means that dubious patents are nevertheless enforced. That inhibits innovation, the very thing that patent law is supposed to encourage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16Lichtman.html

article about the case

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704495004576265090610775226.html