Is the Supreme Court about to rule software ineligible for patent protection?
Software patents might not be so bad if 1) Patents didn't cost much nor required renewals and expedited service fees, and all that crap; 2) were first to invent, not first to file; and 3) officers at the USPTO actually had a clue and didn't hand out patents for trivial things like wildcard matching with a `*` character (yes, that happened just a few years ago).