Extrapolating from the contents of the software patents I have seen, I shudder to think at how much utter slop and obvious-to-any-engineer-versed-in-the-field k

Extrapolating from the contents of the software patents I have seen, I shudder to think at how much utter slop and obvious-to-any-engineer-versed-in-the-field kinds of patents are going to be among those 750. "A method by which a button is rendered on the screen such that it can be clicked on with a mouse, causing some action to occur." etc, etc. Also the fact that any company could even buy software patents, let alone buy 750 of them, makes the system look absurd. The whole point was to reward the original inventors. Now it rewards trolls and lawyers and those with big war chests. (a method by which my comments are posted to a website configured as a discussion forum with an orange bar at the top. the target website may also include links to other pages, and include caching.)