"Do you honestly think that it even possible that examiners spend years examining cases?" It would be if they hadn't already broken the system by letting so ma

"Do you honestly think that it even possible that examiners spend years examining cases?" It would be if they hadn't already broken the system by letting so many frivolous patents through. The original view of patent eligibility from those who encoded the system into the US Constitution was VERY different than that of today. See, for example: http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/mcphersonletter.html http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/mcphersonletter.html If Jefferson had any idea of what the current patent system would look like and how little it had to do with bringing to bear really novel inventions with high social value (compared to being mostly a rent seeking mechanism used to make a quick buck via iffy, vague claims on all sorts of obvious ideas), I'm absolutely certain he would never have allowed for the creation of the system on his watch.