Patent Problems

CNN:

A small company called Acacia Research Corp. went after some of the biggest names in broadcasting last month, suing nine companies for an estimated $100 million for allegedly violating its patent on streaming video. That earned Acacia a spot on what the Electronic Frontier Foundation considers a top 10 list of intellectual property ignominy: patents the online civil liberties group is seeking to strike down as unwarranted and harmful to innovation.

The rest of the article is very interesting giving details about how difficult (and expensive) it is to challenge stupid patents. I have a friend who has been complaining about this for a while now and I do think that this is a problem. Quick evolution of technology has definately increased this problem.