“But taking their patents would be like taking a car company’s patents because they didn’t sell street cars that can go 150 mph at the request if the Transportation Department.”
If a company sells a known defective product, and what is more defective that a computer security program with a back door, then if teh judgment is such that sale of the company assets must include the patents, what is different than any other satisfaction of judgment?
I don’t know what you’re asking here, but my thought is that the software is *not* defective or broken, but compromised and purposefully unsecured so that they can be spied upon.