I guess this other patent lawsuit IBM recently filed is SCO's fault too LMAO.
http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?articleId=196601593&cid=ChannelWebNews
It is interesting to note that IBM files most patents with such a minimal information disclosure statement that it makes you wonder if they did any prior art searching at all. One of the patents against Amazon, for example, had only four patents cited as potential prior art. Not one academic paper was mentioned.
Yes, in at least one of the four patents in question, an inventor had authored and submitted an academic paper that was published in a journal. Do you think this was disclosed to the USPTO.... I think not.
The whole thing makes me laugh considering all the postering they are doing on how to clean up the patent system. Yeah... go figure.