What can we ask of the USPTO?  The USPTO is organising
roundtables to get suggestions from software developers. Below
are my initial thoughts on what changes we can ask for. If you
have other suggestions, please contribute to this wiki page:  A
big problem with this sort of hearing is that the audience isn’t
specialised in knowing how the USPTO can influence patent
policy, and which court rulings bind the USPTO in which ways. So
there will be a lot of simply invalid suggestions (which should
go to Congress or the courts). Let’s try to reduce that waste.
The other problem is that because the patent office’s role is so
limited, we can’t ask for much.  Here’s what I think we can
usefully ask for:    1. I’d start by saying that they don’t need
to ask the software community. Judges consistantly invalidate
software patents, much more than non-software patents, as shown
in this study:      Surely the USPTO can read those rulings to
see what they’re doing wrong. For a suggestion to be valid, a
proposed change has to