Judge Richard Posner threw out Apple v. Motorola after expressing frustration with the behavior of the sparring litigants, and in a new op-ed for The Atlantic, he's broadened his distasteful gaze to the whole US patent system. Like our own Nilay Patel, Posner believes that patent law falls short in its broadly consistent application: he says that "with some exceptions, US patent law does not discriminate among types of inventions or particular industries. This is, or should be, the most controversial feature of that law." Posner says that there are too many patents in the US, and that industries with low costs of invention give competitors advantages for less than optimal reasons.
Posner cites the pharmaceutical industry as a "poster...
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