Patents

Not sure if any of you saw this, but it's actually a pretty big deal.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10079859-38.html

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit basically overturned the concept of "software patents".

For those of you who haven't done something in the court system, one of the biggest element to arguing your side is citing case law from past cases particularly if they were from a higher court.

This could still be appealed, but everywhere I'm reading about it says it's unlikely given the situation around this ruling.

This could be very interesting...