Good News! Software Patents are in Jeopardy

You do not understand what the purpose of patents is. It is NT simply a
monopoly grant. It is a tradeoff. The patentee provides a complete
description of their patent, so that anyone CAN improve on it.

In looking at many patents, we see that which many here reject,
"Security by " Very far from complete descriptions, many are
sketchy, even obviously misleading.

The law in
exchange for that public disclosure grants a monopoly on exercising that
process, for a fixed time. Having part of the patent be secret is a
complete betrayal of the whole purpose of patents.
*It is that tradeoff which is crucial --

If that is the real purpose, I agree.

Corrupt governments grant monopolies.

It's difficult to find one who has virginal feet, surely not ours of
late.
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Whether or not the tradeoffs in patents is really worth it could be
debated. In copyright the balance has definitely shifted to the corrupt end
of the scale-- I give you money for political donations and you allow me to
gouge your fellow citizens-- especially in software. But that is another
arguement.

The fuzzy separation here with patents and copyrights would lead us
far afield as openness to abuse any worthy goals is generally
available for those that look for legal realities, often
contradictory, not to be confused with academic freedom which
sometimes even exceeds a gasp for its own survival.