I got this info from a patent mailing list:
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http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/10/cpreport.htm
It is :
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf
Pages 13-14 are interesting, in the way that they think that software
patents were a big mistake, although they propose nothing to try to remove
them, save for easier and cheaper invalidation procedures, which have though
no legal certainty as they will be in charge of the USPTO itself...
Chapter V is most interesting, as the problems are stated, ... with no
workable answer provided.
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Fight the Patent!