John Siracusa recently covered patents on his Hypercritical podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68. Nice dissection of the ide

John Siracusa recently covered patents on his Hypercritical podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68. Nice dissection of the idea of drug patents as being "special" (vs other kinds of patentable IP) in there as well.