Patents are such a colossal pain in the patookus. If you're a small inventor, you can't live without them - you have to at least *try* to protect your work so you can earn a living from it. If you're a big corporation, you can pump out so many patents that separating *real* inventions from completely ridiculous claims becomes near impossible. As in most things in life, the advantage goes to Global Megacorp, Inc., since they have the deepest pockets.
I don't have a solution to this patent mess, but the whole situation makes me want to puke on a lawyer. Bleh.
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