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(Unverified)Jun 15th 2007 12:39AM

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As I was taught in my Intro to Economics class, patents intended to return the externalities (outside benefits) to a company, and this is to encourage research and development. There are some research areas that need "encouragement". But some ideas would be developed without needing any encouragement (like those in competitive areas, such as the latest OS wars), and that's why they have the "obvious to one skilled in the profession" limitation.

Looking at it this way, I think areas in software that actually need extra encouragement from patent rights are VERY rare.

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