[BinaryIdiot]

> It's unfortunate that the Patent Office can't ban trolls who have abused the system.

I agree with you on one hand but on the other is it impossible for a person to reform and later want a patent to protect their new creation? I'd just like to see the whole system overhauled or maybe even removed in some ways.

[spacemanmatt]

I would be ok with keeping the patent system only if it becomes far more difficult to gain a monopoly on an invention. The courts+USPTO allowed an era of serious abuse via patents on abstract inventions that we won't recover from quickly.