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Software patent quality worse than all other fields

Revision as of 21:05, 16 February 2009 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad.)
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Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad.

Possible reasons

  1. Abstract algorithms can be described in so many ways
  2. Jargon and lack of tangible components can make a mundane software idea sound technical