I have to agree. The problem isn&#x27;t so much that software should be inherently unpatentable, but that there&#x27;s been such a flood of patented ideas that pretty clearly are independently discoverable by numerous people working on the problem (or worse, are patents of an <i>end</i> rather than a <i>means</i> e.g. the one-click patent) and which keep getting passed through, which results in a patent database that&#x27;s a minefield rather than a mine of useful ideas.