Sad that the patent system has been so corrupted that obvious UI designs are patented and defensible in court. From the descriptions of a couple of the patents

Sad that the patent system has been so corrupted that obvious UI designs are patented and defensible in court. From the descriptions of a couple of the patents these don’t describe intellectual property, that an inventor worked hard to discover. Rather they are legalese tricks that make obvious improvements that belong in intellectual commons, appear to belong to a single entity. IBM is behaving like an enterprise parasite.