CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom
This decision saddens me.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.Anything that gives universities more of an incentive to pursue the patent angle, which this judgment does, will therefore be bad for science. :-((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!)