CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom
This decision saddens me.<p>I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress.  It creates evidence of innovation (ie patents), but slows actual innovation.<p>Anything that gives universities more of an incentive to pursue the patent angle, which this judgment does, will therefore be bad for science. :-(<p>(In CS, whole areas have become minefields for this reason.  For example go out and implement a wavelet compression algorithm for images without violating any patents.  Are you sure you didn't violate patents?  Really sure?  Exactly!)