I fully appreciate your intention to moderate the belligerent tone with reason and a Kantian admiration for applying the law as it is. However, I believe that the contention with Intellectual Ventures is that they hold patents that many say were awarded in spite of what was considered at the time (and far more so now) common concepts. It seems that voiding those patents is unreasonably hard with the law as it stands. Therefore, I hope that the judge considers not just the case, but also the industry-wide consequences, and accepts that what is commonly accepted in tech, for the greater good, are close imitation of previous designs. If I could influence the decision, I would gladly point at Haute-cuisine and their original idea-defending mechanisms.