On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Vitaliy wrote: > An acquaitance said on his blog that he's flying to Scan Francisco to attend > the SVOD 2009 conference. I got curious and went to look at the agenda: > > http://www.svod.org/2009/agenda > > At first, I thought that a summary of Dr. Pavel Pogodin's speech was a joke. > Alas, I think he's serious. > > ============= > LATEST TRENDS IN PRIVATE EQUITY: PATENT LITIGATION AS AN INVESTMENT > OPPORTUNITY That just about sums up for me just how rotten the US patent system is. Chris -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist