It's things like this that make me think we would be better off with no patent or copyright law, compared to what we have now:

A Colorado man says Apple’s smart cover for the new iPad and the iPad 2 violate his 2005 patent for a “Portable Computer Case.”

That doesn't mean that a complete absence of copyrights and patents would be a good thing; it simply means that things are so bad now that a complete free for all would actually be an improvement. What should really be done is a full repeal of copyright and patent law, with a reset to whatever existed after the first set of laws passed at the founding of the Republic....

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