Great post. June 28th can’t come soon enough. Did you know IBM wants to patent a process for outsourcing?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216402013
Today, Supreme Court basically concluded that these sort of crappy vague business method patents are ok (in “Bilski”, the patent was invalidated but the arguments indicate that there is nothing wrong with these kind of patents).
Interestingly, Justice Stevens was opposed to this idea (ie wanted to restrict this sort of patents)