The Death of Google's Patents (Patently-O)

As is made clear in the comments, the author is involved in the Bilski case he mentions and is
famous for a 'patents on all information processing' view of the world. He tries to use Google
as a poster child for patents due to their success, although I don't think that has much to do
with their patents. (It/they might have been useful for initial VC funding?).

Getting people (especially the patent people who hang out on that blog) to see that patents on
information transformation are nothing more than a tiresome drag in development and a skewer
of the direction of development and standards remains an uphill struggle. Most of them can't
see past the money.