Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (74735)	6/20/2001 7:44:35 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 93625

O.T.?? ...Owl Topic? <vbg> I doubt that this Pico Turbo ruling will have much, if any, impact on RMBS even if we assume it resulted from a Markman hearing. My theory is that the patent system is the greatest of all legal "scams" expressly designed to take advantage of the inability of you wingless creatures to interact in a peaceful manner. When people stop paying their legal bills on mass we will know that true Market "revolution" will soon follow. <vbg> Until then, we can only watch and wonder at the "mysteries" of The Law. The Big Guys who actually control the means of production - and those of us who need their production - have sought to avoid pouring money into the Black Hole of Patent Law by supporting industry standards groups. But the Legal system cannot permit this effort to be successful and it will find ways to maintain its growth rate. ...Which is why we cannot predict, with certainty, what the Supreme Court will do with Festo or any other case they take. All that we can say for sure is that they want to declare some law. What that "law" is will be largely determined by their collective perception of what patent litigants should be allowed to fight over in court and its a rare day when the Supremes truly cut off an entire field of legal battle. But they also have to accept the realities of a patent process that has become, lets say, "just a tad" insane. I predict a very "mysterious" final decision with a minimum of three separate opinions by the Court.<vbg> 0\|0