The majority of patent busting is done against companies who file (and are awarded) spurious patents that should never have been granted in the first place due to prior art or other such causes.

Busting patents causes more risk. Nobody should lose their golden goose because they hired an idiot lawyer.

Do you want to die of some painful slow disease, because the giant pharmaceutical company was afraid to develop the drug because the patent wasn’t solid enough?

Do you want to guy who is only 6 months away from making flying cars and teleportation booths to give up and go back to driving a bus, because he’s just one guy and he expects to get screwed by the lawyers?

http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/pdf/DefendantsMotion.pdf .

What happened is that the dental student claimed she had Attention Deficit Disorder for which she needed a variety of special accommodations, such as the right to take the clinical dental exams in a private room so that she would not be distracted, unlimited deferrals in case she did not “feel ready” to take the exam on that day, and so on.

Some of the professors resigned rather than to allow this obviously inept student to get these special privileges, which would have made meaningless her certification and placed her patients in danger.

Anyway, she continued blundering through school, collecting D and E grades, missing multiple cavities, failing to provide proper anaesthesia, missing large ulcers right next to the tooth, and on and on for pages.

This is truly a tragic case, not only for the way in which it penalized dentists who were trying to protect patients, but even more tragically for the message it sends medical schools: quality of patient care is immaterial, only blind adherence to the demands of unqualified students.

Now, the worst student in the dental school is the wealthiest; and the most honorable dental professors are the poorest. It’s very, very sad.