I find most software patents ridiculous. Patents were designed to promote growth by encouraging inventors to share their work and offering royalties in exchange. Instead, patents have become a rat race for intellectual ownership of common ideas. There is a finite number of viable solutions to any given problem. As a computer programer I rarely find myself facing a unique problem; the solution is almost always on stack overflow. Patent Trolls quietly buy up the copyrights to the common solutions, then come out from under their bridge to sue anyone who has solved the problem in the same way. If these companies buy up all original ideas, and sue anyone who thinks the same way, our nation will be left in a state of endless stupor.
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