[rkarumanchi]

This company may not have. But society in general would have. http://bit.ly/UX90n is a good econtalk which talks about patents, competition and innovation and argues that patents are detrimental to society.

[RevRal]

Just a heads up, seeing as you're pretty new. URL shorteners aren't advocated or necessary here on HN.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/05/boldrin_on_inte.htm...