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“What’s happening today, particularly in the electronics industries, is a widespread misuse of the patent system,” said Robert Merges, a University of California Berkeley law professor who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case on behalf of Web portal Yahoo. “People have been looking for tools to deal with it, and I think we just got a big one.”