Well, patents, much like copyrights, only have value inasmuch as you are prepared to pay to fight it out in court. Copyrights are a little more straight forwar

Well, patents, much like copyrights, only have value inasmuch as you are prepared to pay to fight it out in court. Copyrights are a little more straight forward, as "invalidation" (absent of plagiarism) is less common (though not unheard of). The stack exchange guys have a whole site dedicated to finding prior art to invalidate patents. http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/prior-art-request http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/prior-art-...