I can't imagine HP would want to open itself up to lawsuits that would come over bogus patents given for stupid IP in the code.

Gee, perhaps the patent office's built-in corruption factor might have something to do with this (their revenue stream is increased the more bogus patents they issue).

The problem is you end up with arguably bogus patents which give a company essentially a government-sponsored right to sue someone else who they feel is infringing on their patent.

I mean, just bogus patents.

Same goes for other bogus patents that we keep seeing nowadays.

Actually I blame more the court that approve those bogus patents.

In a blog post, one of Google's top lawyers accused the firms of using "bogus patents" to crank up the cost of Android-powered devices.

Google has publicly bemoaned what it calls "a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents."

But the best outcome is indeed for all of those bogus patents to be revoked.

'Get real' Last year, Google accused its competitors of buying up what it called "bogus patents" in order to slow the development of its Android operating system.