<story><title>Supreme Court rules against Microsoft in major patent case</title><url>http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/supreme-court-rules-against-microsoft.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>To me, the scariest part was:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;U.S. solicitor general, which represents the federal government, filed a brief in support of i4i, saying that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should not be second-guessed by a jury.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Patent and Trademark Office absolutely should be second-guessed by a jury.  Judges and juries are the only sanity-check the whole system has at this point!</text></comment>
<story><title>Supreme Court rules against Microsoft in major patent case</title><url>http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/supreme-court-rules-against-microsoft.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reader5000</author><text>It&apos;s so ridiculous theyre essentially patenting generic syntaxes for representing documents that anybody &quot;skilled in the art&quot; would come up with in 5 minutes. It would have been much better for small developers if Microsoft won this. It&apos;s funny how this is treated as a win for the little guys, who can&apos;t afford massive patent portfolios nor litigation battles like Microsoft.</text></comment>