Would you be so kind as to disclose any special interest that you have in the matter of patents?

Your comment was fairly strong so I'm curious if you have much skin in the game.

I don't make any secret of it. See my web site, "www.animats.com". Although it's rather dated at this point.

So if we grant you're one of the patent good guys - are you prepared to defend the whole show? What do you think of the overall quality of patents granted - when compared to the cost of defending against them? Does it seem like a reasonable and proportionate system to you?

Who is "them"? And who will pay the enormous lawsuit bills for the thousands of cases? And are there enough lawyers in the world to fight every obvious patent? Enlighten us.