On Software Patents Again

The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents - Timothy B. Lee - Disruptive Economics - Forbes: "But the Supreme Court won’t take such a dramatic step unless there is a broad consensus that patents are detrimental to software innovation. And this is why it’s so valuable to have mainstream programs like This American Life covering the issue. Justice Kennedy was obviously unaware that most computer programmers consider patents an impediment to their work. Only if this fact becomes common knowledge, in the way that everyone knows doctors hate malpractice lawsuits, will we have any hope of the Supreme Court—and specifically Justice Scalia—doing the right thing."