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With Twitter's (annoying/undeserved/silly) high profile, this may finally shed some light on patent litigation in the main stream. A politician may even see this as his opportunity to show the kids how cool he is and introduce patent reform legislation. Let's hope so!

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I hope so too. But then again, RIM vs NTP was pretty high profile too: we were talking about millions of Blackberries just going off line, at a time when they were arguably as popular among the movers and shakers as Twitter is now.

This was my first thought as well. In a way, this is the best thing that can possibly happen for software. It could be THE case that sheds public light on the ridiculousness of software method patents. If only patents weren't such big business for the government in the U.S.

Well put. Although European patent laws are a different kettle of fish.

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