lol. Honestly, the whole patent system right now is so boned beyond mention that they need to scrap it and start from the bottom up. Of course, given how fast technology is moving these days, what's the point? By the time you get the patent, the technology is already obsolete. Plus things are FAR too restrictive and innovation would explode if technology patents were either severely restricted or eliminated. Some say things would get ugly. I don't really think they would. Sure, there would be the whole goldrush mentality for a few years, after which you'd see things settle down into a more manageable development curve. The only reason there'd be a goldrush of sorts is that the freeing up of tech patents would allow the innovation curve to flow out from behind it's dam of patents and settle into a more natural flow again instead of the damed up trickle we get now. The part that will keep this from happening is all the companies who want to do everything imaginable to kill all competition and become a monopoly. With no tech patents, or no patents at all, period, it'd be every man for himself and you'd either have to be an innovator and a leader in quality and would be forced to truly compete or die. That's great for us, and it's even better for the companies who can pull it off. For one, it'd weed out the weak and bad companies and boost the strong and good companies.