[Chaebixi]

> There are plenty of people who wouldn't touch anything patented at all, sometimes even with a patent clause.

Then that's their loss. This seems like the ideal scenario for patent protections: small inventor developing a genuinely novel and useful invention that big, rich companies would otherwise shamelessly copy.

[RaleyField]

Ideal scenario are inventions that _require_ billion dollar investments to be discovered (aka big pharma). Anything that can be reinvented by chance independently without much effort if there is demand for it shouldn't be patentable. Probably everything concerning representation of floating point numbers should fall in this category.