Tom Insam on why calls to invalidate software patents will continue to go unheeded:
So, with lots of handwaving, we can argue that this petition is asking the US government to unilaterally destroy $100bn worth of corporate-held property.
It’s always politically difficult to take valuable things from people who have the means to defend their right to keep them.
September 26, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Don’t all those patents evaporate in an average of 10 years anyway? Perhaps it would be possible to stop issuing and also adjust the litigation extravagances.
Not likely, of course.