“ The USPTO has repeatedly shown that they do not possess the ability to issue software patents responsibly. This isn’t the agency’s fault — it’s impossible in practice. As Stallman says, it often takes advanced computer scientists to even realize that two given patents are functionally identical, or that a patent application represents something trivial and already in widespread use.
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Another point to my list of reasons against software patents by Marco Arment.
And we haven’t even gotten into the subject of patent trolls yet.
