Well, the court case is in Seattle, so it is rather likely that there are enough
people in the vicinity of the judge in some sort of relation with Microsoft
without the need for a specific disqualification of impartiality.
If
the judgment prevails, it is not precedent pro-Microsoft per se, but rather
anti-standard.
Of course, this is a feather in the cap of patent trolls since
bogus patents are not really standard-relevant (they may "cover"
standard-compliant devices, but will not have been entered into the standard
forming process).
It also strengthens the power of patents that are
not or prohibitively expensively licensed.
So the focus is to
strengthen monopolies while weakening science and
progress.
This is a perversion of the original patent system, abandoning the
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