The US supreme court ruled what a lot of people kept repeating for years already: the worldwide patent system has got out of control. The market is flooded with trivial patents, which are only used to make money from litigation and slander. To make it even worse, the power to judge the patents is in the hands of the same organization which grants it. This means that it's in the USPTO's interest to grant as many patents as possible, in order to gain money from invalidating them.
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