A short aside from the previous piece on Apple. In the presentation, Jobs pointed out that Apple had got more than 200 patents on various parts of the iPhone. And a recent Audi A6 TV ad talks about how it has taken out more patents than NASA has ever taken out for its new car (9,621 filed).
Am I the only person who thinks that extreme numbers of patents are actually a really bad thing? I mean are there 10,000 different components actually in a new car that can be patented?