Is the Tide Turning On Patents?

Glyn Moody writes "The FSF has funded a new video, 'Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system,' freely available (of course) in Ogg Theora format (what else?). It comes at a time when a lot is happening in the world of patents. Recent work from leading academics has called into question their basis: 'The work in this paper, and that of many others, suggests that this traditionally-struck "devil's bargain" may not be beneficial.' We recently discussed how a judge struck down Myriad Genetics's patents on two genes because they involved a law of Nature, and were thus 'improperly granted.' Meanwhile, the imminent Supreme Court ruling In re Bilski is widely expected to have negative knock-on effects for business method and software patents. Is the tide beginning to turn?"

Can't be

[Genius In Remission]

I have a patent on turning tides

Re:Tide Will Turn on Turning

[BJ_Covert_Action]

So what you're saying is...

If the supreme court strikes down software patents with their Bilski ruling, they shall become more powerful than we can possibly imagine!

Right??