The Patent Frenzy began when Francis Holton filed the millionth patent in the United States Patent Office for a tubeless vehicle tire. From 1790 (when the first patent was filed on July 31) to 1911, only one million patents were filed. In the last hundred years, almost fourteen million patents were filed, with over four million in the last ten years alone. Crazy! No wonder the software patent pirates [still] plunder away!

I wish they would follow Napolean Bonaparte’s example and retreat to the South Atlantic to live in Exile. Saint Helena still exists and I certainly won’t stop them from recreating the voyage Napolean embarked on 196 years ago today!