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.Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X.If more people understood the inanity of this line of argument, the world would be a much better place.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.