gnujoshua writes "Has the time come to abolish software patents? Fortune magazine columnist Roger Parloff reports of a new campaign called End Software Patents, that he views as "Attempting to ride a wave of corporate and judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system." Ryan Paul of ArsTechnica writes that the purpose of the campaign will work to "educate the public and encourage grass-roots patent reform activism in order to promote effective legislative solutions to the software patent problem." The campaign site is informative and targets many types of readers, and it includes a scholarship contest with a top prize of $10,000.00." Link to Original Source
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Let me see.... The patent office can't handle the piles-of-crap submissions they are receiving and a huge backlog has built up because anyone and there mum can spend 5 minutes to submit a software patent claim, and the trolls are busy chasing down any business that can be intimidated into coughing up cash just for having the cheek of running a website or using - you know - any type of software... Solution, courts should bring back the sanity that prevailed some time in that last century, and restrict patent
Software patents have broken the system (Score:1)