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Looks like the real winners are Douglas B. Greenswag and Patrick J. McElhinny of K&L Gates ... Carnegie Mellon's lawyers.

• monochromatic 14y ago
  Why does the winning litigant not count as a real winner?
  • accountswu 14y ago
    Perhaps jennichen was suggesting that since the appeal has already been filed and the verdict might be overturned, the lawyers win either way. In the end CMU may get nothing out of it after having spent millions on the lawyers. Quoting from the article shared: "As Brian Love, a professor of patent law at Santa Clara University, pointed out, most universities end up net losers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190) in the game of "patent roulette," with their patents costing them more money than they make."
  • uvdiv 14y ago
    Another commenter wrote an interesting reply to you. It got censored by friendly robot overlord, so I'll reproduce it: «Perhaps jennichen was suggesting that since the appeal has already been filed and the verdict might be overturned, the lawyers win either way. In the end CMU may get nothing out of it after having spent millions on the lawyers.» «Quoting from the article shared:» «"As Brian Love, a professor of patent law at Santa Clara University, pointed out, most universities end up net losers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190) in the game of "patent roulette," with their patents costing them more money than they make."» (Thank you 'accountswu', that is an interesting find.)