Patent Issues Must Read

ARS Technica have published an article which discusses some of the issues facing the current patent process and the viewpoints of some of the players in the battles surrounding the laws involved in them. In the article, which is well worth a read, they state that: "Two of the nation's leading civil liberties organizations and a new organization dedicated to the abolition of software patents have all filed amicus briefs in a patent case that could give the courts an opportunity to revisit the issue of software and business method patents." I'll be following this one as I think that the whole patent process as it stands is bad for innovation and too easy to abuse.