Right now the biggest problems seem to be that the patent office has given up on researching prior art and giving patents for trivial and obvious improvements on prior patents. One seminar I attended called this the five legged chair patent. If someone patents a chair with four legs, someone else can essentially take that patent, cross out four, write in five and patent that with the patent office relying on the courts to later rule whether the patent is void because it is obvious.
Well you’re right, he doesn’t explain the problems with the law, in this article he’s describing how it is getting passed by the firms that want it.
I’ve been an unwilling participant in some of this stuff for over a decade. I sometimes forget that others aren’t familiar with the inter partes reviews at the USPTO and other schemes to weaken patent protection.
The whole process is being gamed by hedge funds and big firms that are stealing patents.