Whether you like his work or not, he has written a very interesting article on patent law which now appears on his website.
Check it out and cringe at the absurdity.
I got back Friday night only to see that I had a bunch of junk / spam comments so I just got rid of those. In doing so, I have realized that I should have spent some time on vacation writing new posts for when I got back. For the second year in a row, I did nothing of the sort. There's always next year.