This is like the thousandth time I've heard of a ridiculous software patent. The USPTO is a horrible, broken farce and more of a bane to software innovation tha

This is like the thousandth time I've heard of a ridiculous software patent. The USPTO is a horrible, broken farce and more of a bane to software innovation than a boon. Not technically a bane to true innovation, but to every day engineers-doing-normal-non-innovative kind of work, applying standard patterns and techniques in obvious ways.