A tip for crazy people on the Internet: If the worst you can say about something is that it "ignited a true blogosphere frenzy" it probably doesn't deserve the "Gate" suffix.
Honestly, I wish we could enact a moratorium on using the -gate suffix. Things that'd warrant it would be rare enough that we could make exceptions as they arose.
If they had contacted their patent lawyer earlier than they had, they might have avoided jumping the gun with their first blog post and their only blog post might have been explaining why the twittersphere and blogosphere were overreacting.
It is but since the first part of the story was submitted n-times over (including comments proclaiming Apple turning evil because of the patent) I thought is was only appropriate to submit the conclusion, too.
I really wish somebody could manage to write an article that explains to folks how to read patents. I know it's boring, and we definitely need some kind of reform, but the ignorance and misinformation out there is incredible.
Hmmm, wonder if Bruce Sewell, apples new counsel, who left Intel is attempting to claim he resolved the REAL PATENTGATE. Whose trying to steal my moniker of Patentgate otherwise. Right prior to Sewell's jumping from Intel, Sewell was notified of his involvement in the REAL PATENTGATE unfolding for a Trillion Dollar Heist of Intellectual Property from Iviewit Technologies and me, inventor, Eliot Bernstein. See
http://www.brucesewell.com/2010/03/eliot-bernstein-of-iviewi...
