Hammering the patent fiasco

Martin says about 30 percent of U.S. patents are essentially on things that have already been invented. In 2000, for example, the patent office granted a patent on making toast — patent number 6080436, "Bread Refreshing Method." NPR

HT DeLong

My own Senator (Babs Boxer) buys into this patent crap and supported first to file! She has no concept of what this is about, and when they legalized software patents, our idiot politicians had no clue. Nor does the patent office, by the way, they are as clueless.