Software patents are obviously bogus, as shown by the Curry-Howard correspondence. Software is not patentable in many jurisdictions. Abandoning the patent syst

Software patents are obviously bogus, as shown by the Curry-Howard correspondence. Software is not patentable in many jurisdictions. Abandoning the patent system because of software patents would be an egregious example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The USPTO and the American civil legal system is broken in a lot of quite fundamental ways, but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea of patent law.