> WE NEED FEWER PATENTS. If a system is implemented with this as its primary guiding principle, what you will end up with is fewer good patents, and a vastly h

> WE NEED FEWER PATENTS. If a system is implemented with this as its primary guiding principle, what you will end up with is fewer good patents, and a vastly higher proportion of junk or actively malicious patents. We don't need fewer patents. We need to eliminate software patents, better fund the patent office so it can employ enough people to properly review all the applications it gets, and probably do something different with biological and pharmaceutical patents (too many of these are built heavily on public research, and AFAIK it's far too easy to make small changes and get the original patent extended if it's still lucrative).