Yea it's a pretty ridiculous state we're in. Fortunately this patent was probably filed defensively by RIM, but the moment they decide in the next 20 years that

Yea it's a pretty ridiculous state we're in. Fortunately this patent was probably filed defensively by RIM, but the moment they decide in the next 20 years that a branch could be more profitable by firing their employees and siphoning some intellectual property into a litigious happy NPE, then any group rejecting user passwords that look like p@ssword will be in violation until the year 2031