Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I wish someone would finally just patent getting patents. (IBM's come close from what I hear, but it's not quite there yet.) That's probably the only way the US will ever be rid of the dammed things. Heck, with the USPTO being as grossly incompetent as it is, it would probably be granted: it would just have to be written in a sufficiently ultra-pedantic style.
I agree that patents are a blight on the industry.