Why 90% patents are crap

This article is clearly wrong, because it says 90% of patents are &quot;crap&quot;.<p>The truth is that 100% of patents are crap. The whole system should just be abolished. All it does is give monopoly rights to huge corporations and prevent competition.

Yesterday during a design meeting somebody mentioned there are patents about uploading log files from a device we would be violating with a solution we had cooked up in 5 minutes. Totally insane.<p>Unless somebody comes up with a simple idea for determining whether a patent is real innovation I think we should give up on patents or make them very short term like 2 years for software. It would require changes to a lot of business models but I think in the long run we would be better off.