You can see how very far we are from any kind of sensible patent reform here. Yglesias seems to understand, but check the comments. The general progressive pu

You can see how very far we are from any kind of sensible patent reform here. Yglesias seems to understand, but check the comments. The general progressive public is still entriely under the illusion of the patent bar. They really believe PTO would never allow you to patent mathematical laws, algorithms, laws of nature, business processes, obvious extensions of established methods, well-known existing practices, and all the other corruptions common in software patents. Quite a lot of them argue that such abuses must not exist because there are supposedly rules against them.