US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"
> He noted that during a time of growing litigation in the smartphone industry, "innovation continues at an absolutely breakneck pace. In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be said that the patent system is broken," he said.<p>Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X.<p>If more people understood the inanity of this line of argument, the world would be a much better place.<p>The head of the USPTO isn't even willing to have an intellectually honest debate on the subject. It's pretty clear that change is not going to come from within.