<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;blogpost&#x2F;fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-11056" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;blogpost&#x2F;fuck-everything-were-doing-...</a><p>So inductive patent expansion. Take previous innovation, add 1, profit.<p>What about L0 and L4 caches? Or Renaming sets of renamed registers? The problem as others have outlined, that patents are not concrete enough. Simply describing a problem is enough  to be granted a patent. The value of the description of most patents is zero, which afaik this opposite of their intended effect as a record and transfer of technology.