"We are targeting younger people without kids or a house, but they could be a couple filing jointly, " says Block vice president Gene Goldenberg.

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Mr. Kalisman and OTK reacted to the Yucaipa deal by immediately filing a derivative lawsuit pending in Delaware Chancery Court that seeks to block the deal.

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This is true despite the fact that prior to filing a patent application a thorough search is typically performed, looking for any publication that might block a patent from issuing, and that a patent application is only filed when chances for obtaining a patent appear good.

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Joseph Bankman, a tax law professor at Stanford University, thinks lobbying by the computer industry will block changes to the status quo, but he's got other ideas for the IRS to make filing taxes easier.

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