No Surprise (Score 1)

I guess in the end, given the debacle that was the NTP/RIM lawsuit, I would not be completely surprised. What bothers me, and just about everyone else out there is that there is nothing, well, at least nothing that I'm hearing or reading about, being done to put an end to this. Just because people here on /. talk about it doesn't mean that anything is ever going to get done. This is of concern to me because I have a BlackBerry. I am a BB Admin at work, and I deal with these things daily. What I don't understand is how patent holding companies are not squashed out of existence. Obviously the founding fathers had no idea the "system" would be abused the way that it has, and that the judicial system is for the most part rather uneducated regarding technology, meaning we see "unfair" judgments regarding these cases. Secondly, I feel that we need someone, at least one person that has some semblance of common sense in the USPTO. Hey, I can wish, can't I? It really is disappointing that nothing is made of this, and that this isn't making at least CNN bottom of the news hour. We have really messed our priorities up here in the US. It is really something that all of us can be ashamed of. Lets stop just talking about change, and really go out and at the very least, try to make something happen.