Didn't mean to downvote this. I click randomly sometimes. Seems that something that doesn't matter shouldn't be legislated. Do patents matter in other indust

Didn't mean to downvote this. I click randomly sometimes. Seems that something that doesn't matter shouldn't be legislated. Do patents matter in other industries? If patents drive innovation in some industries, but have no effect on others besides putting money into lawyers' pockets (and out of taxpayers', entrepreneurs', and corporations' pockets), that would be a case against software patents but not all patents.