Software patent quality worse than all other fields

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

The disclosed information is useless

(Maybe this should be a separate page/argument, but let's wait until this page grows first.)

• Microsoft employee explains why disclosure is useless

Examples

• Unbelievable software patents
• FFII's webshop which uses 20 ideas patented in the EU
• Microsoft developer's internal comments about his own patents indecipherable by anyone but a patent attorney
• Some Kodak patents

See also

• Raising standards is not our goal