Thomas Jefferson would disagree with you strongly, he was quite clear that he believed patents should require a very strong degree of novelty and differentiatio

Thomas Jefferson would disagree with you strongly, he was quite clear that he believed patents should require a very strong degree of novelty and differentiation: See, for example: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl220.php http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter... Sadly we've strayed very far away from how Jefferson thought patents should work in this age of "This thing... but on a computer" patents.