Patents on Tax Reduction Strategies a Problem

EsonLinji writes "The International Herald Tribune has an article about how some lawyers are realising that patents on tax reduction strategies (a business method) might be a problem. The article states that there are already 50 such patents with more on the way, and at least one lawsuit. Particularly worrying is the idea of needing a license to follow the law. Fortunately, some of the laws get that this is a problem. Tax patents, the lawyers wrote, amount to 'government-issued barbed wire' to keep some taxpayers from getting equal treatment under the tax code."

Comments

Recursive patents.

[91degrees]

So, if I patent a method af applying for and receiving a patent, will the patent system self destruct?

Re:Self Destruct

[afjerntagel]

The previos poster wrote:

"One can only hope that tax and patent lawyers turn on each other and simply self destruct."

You work as an ecology consultant for Austraila or something?

What if they get viable offspring, you thought of that?! /Af Jerntagel

Re:Self Destruct

[enharmonix]

Well, if I remember correctly, tax lawyers and patent lawyers are complimentary (same mass but opposite charge, i.e., a tax lawyer can be seen as a patent lawyer travelling the opposite direction in time), so if they ever do come into contact, they should annihilate each other in a burst of light.