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If you go to court, the judges are likely to be a little more stringent about the idea of what is obvious or not. But the problem is that it costs millions of dollars to do that. I heard of one patent case, the defendant I remember was Qualcomm, and I believe the ruling was ultimately 13 million dollars of which most went to pay the lawyers on both sides. There were a few million dollars left over for the plaintiff, because they lost.