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Some Amicus Briefs in Support of Microsoft in the i4i Case - Google's as text

Now I've seen everything. Wal-Mart is telling the US Supreme Court in an amicus brief that the US patent system is irrational and unfair. And it points the finger of blame straight at the Federal Circuit.
Can change in the patent system be far away *now*?
Seriously, Google, Verizon, Dell, HP, HTC, and Wal-Mart, if you can believe it, have together filed an amicus brief [PDF] in support of Microsoft's petition for writ of certiorari [PDF] in the i4i patent litigation case Microsoft lost both at the District Court level and on appeal to the Federal Circuit. HP and Dell submitted amicus briefs before in support of Microsoft, back when the case was being appealed to the Federal Circuit, but after Microsoft lost again there, the crowd in support has grown. And they all give the court an earful about just how messed up the patent system has become.
It's a new day, ladies and gentlemen, when Wal-Mart gets it that the patent system is destructive to business and destroying innovation. A number of others have also filed amicus briefs, including EFF together with the Apache Software Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Computer & Communications Industry Association. You can find more amicus briefs in Nick Eaton's article in the San Francisco Chronicle, but I thought you'd particularly like to see the Google brief, so I've done it as text, because Google uses the same firm that represents them against Oracle in the patent litigation regarding Java and Android, King & Spalding.

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hash::case::lower

Hash::Case::Lower(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Hash::Case::Lower(3pm)

NAME

       Hash::Case::Lower - hash with enforced lower cased keys

INHERITANCE

	Hash::Case::Lower
	  is a Hash::Case
	  is a Tie::StdHash

SYNOPSIS

	use Hash::Case::Lower;
	tie my(%lchash), 'Hash::Case::Lower';
	$lchash{StraNGeKeY} = 3;
	print keys %lchash;  # strangekey

DESCRIPTION

       Hash::Case::Lower extends Hash::Case, which lets you play various trics with hash keys. In this implementation, the fake hash is case
       insensitive and the keys stored in lower-case.

METHODS

   Constructors
       $obj->addHashData(HASH)
	   See "Constructors" in Hash::Case

       $obj->addPairs(PAIRS)
	   See "Constructors" in Hash::Case

       $obj->setHash(HASH)
	   See "Constructors" in Hash::Case

       tie(HASH, 'Hash::Case::Lower', [VALUES,] OPTIONS)
	   Define HASH to have only lower cased keys.  The hash is initialized with the VALUES, specified as ref-array (with key value pairs) or
	   ref-hash.  Currently, there are no OPTIONS defined.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Hash-Case distribution version 1.02, built on March 09, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/hash-case/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2002-2003,2007-2012 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-09						    Hash::Case::Lower(3pm)