>Do you make stuff? How is it fair that I make something in my garage, and some assmonkey drags my ass to the Eastern District of Texas to claim he deserves 15%

>Do you make stuff? How is it fair that I make something in my garage, and some assmonkey drags my ass to the Eastern District of Texas to claim he deserves 15% of my revenue... I am a software developer myself. Yes, there are an endless number of examples of clearly frivolous patents. This is not an argument against software patents in general. If you can only cite the obviously broken cases to make your argument, your argument isn't that strong. Of course entrepreneurs are generally going to be against patents, they operate on the "market" side of society by definition. Ask that same question to inventors and you'll get different answers. Some people do not have the inclination to be entrepreneurs. Does that mean their contributions to society are worthless simply because they lack the particular skill of entrepreneurship? Would society be better off if inventors were likely to not reap the benefit of their efforts, or would otherwise have to keep the details of their invention secret? Is society better off with Watson's inner workings a trade secret? >We don't make software to file patents. We never have. If you go to Meetups in SF, you'll never meet engineers that want to file patents either. There is a subset of software development that would qualify as inventing. I see no reason why these cases should not be patentable. Just because the vast majority of developers are not inventors and thus see no benefit to patents is not a strong argument.