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And that's it. Remember a lot of politicians are/were lawyers. But seriously, the only downside is that it might encourage companies to keep things as trade secret so that they don't have to publicize it.

And that would appear to be what they are doing. Also, patents aren't trademarks. You don't lose them if you don't sue.

It is not the patent holders responsibility to publicize their patents. It is the responsibility of any inventor to do a patent search first to understand the patent landscape and determine where they have freedom to operate.

Ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law.

How you can list terrible IBM software and NOT mention Lotus Notes is, frankly, shocking.

I do wonder about how badly it will screw up the layout of a website to pull whole chunks of it out. At work, our corporate overlords block Facebook, but I often find that without Facebook, the space that it should have been place it grows to accommodate the scolding message from our IT department about how Facebook is blocked, covering part of the content of the damn page! I even added Facebook to my hosts file, but now I just have a giant 404 iframe that again covers part of the content.

The Huffington Post, in particular, is REALLY bad for this. I actually have to start up Firebug and delete the offending iframe so I can actually read some of the stories.

I cringe more when they don't ask and just do it anyway. Serious pet-peeve.

One of which is a USB port!