Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

Here is an excerpt from an interesting and somewhat amusing post I found today regarding the Verizon versus Vonage patent dispute.

……the problem in these kinds of cases is that no one has the foggiest idea what the patents cover. So when a judge rules that your current product infringes some patent, you respond by re-configuring aspects of your product at random in the hopes that you can convince the judge that the new configuration does not infringe your adversary’s “technology.” ………..determining whether a product infringes a patent in the software industry is about as scientific as reading tea leaves. The main difference is that, you usually don’t have to pay $600 million when you mis-read tea leaves.