"Ethical inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs, both corporations and individuals, must pore through patent databases and unceasingly look back over their shoulders, scanning endlessly for 'stealth' patents that might blow up like hidden time bombs" [Wired]. Patent law is out of control. It would be really nice to see some real change in patent law. However, with everyone's focus on Iraq and terrorism, the economy isn't getting much attention, let alone something as stale as IP law. |