I have a couple things to append to my attack on the patent system.

I must admit that the piece wasn’t well-researched.  But since I wrote it, I’ve come across some supporting materials that may interest you:

• The Patent Epidemic, a BusinessWeek report on how patent litigation is gumming up the works,
• Patents Kill, say Doctors Without Borders (a linking post, but the blog itself is worth a read too), and
• Against Intellectual Property, a well-referenced philosophical approach from the Libertarian point of view.

I will leave the subject with a thought.  Every patent enforced is a thing you aren’t allowed to make.  If you care about making things, don’t you want to see to it that you can?