I find it hilarious there is even a debate in these threads about this. I think it's pretty well established the patent system is entirely screwed. Alas very rich people have a good reason to keep it screwed. To stay rich.

The only thing that suffers is inovation. There is also a trending story floating around lately were some one posted a bogas story created by SciGen to a spammy security magazine. Look at the person who filed these patents... TL;DR just skim them... http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&#...

One would almost think he used the equivalent type script but for patents. HA!