i only have a german link to this story, but have you heard about Software Tree suing RedHat, because they have a patent for mapping between object oriented and relational data representations?

sometimes i really wonder what the US patent system is all about. let's hope they lose this one.

regards,
-erwin

ah, slashdot has it too:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/04/1615250