The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars

GMGruman writes "Bill Snyder warns that the tech patent wars are going nuclear, and could vaporize tech jobs in the process. He likens the situation to medicine, where so much money now goes to pay for insurance and 'defensive medicine,' rather than for actual care. In the tech world, he fears that the same will occur with patents, forcing companies to spend ever more money on patents and lawyers — and less on innovation and staff."

Dark side?

[Vectormatic]

is the a bright side then?

Re:positive feedback increasing number of lawyers

[nomadic]

I'm a lawyer; are you going to shoot me? If so, are you going to do it to my face or are you going to shoot me in the back? Will you allow me to arm myself first, or will you eliminate your risk by making sure I'm unarmed? If I wrestle the gun away from you, do you think I am justified in shooting you with it? I'm really curious about your philosophy.

Re:positive feedback increasing number of lawyers

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

Unnecessarily literal minded, overly argumentative and verbose, completely missing the point, yup, you're a lawyer.