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Martin Fowler is a well-respected thinker and leader in this field ... Software patents are treated as an asset class that can easily be bought and sold, like a stock or bond. There's a big market for them. And that's a big problem. The acquisition of these assets generally means that the inventor -- the entity that patent laws exist to protect -- is out of the picture, leaving those with big money the ammunition to sue, but perhaps not the ambition to innovate. Patent law is long-overdue for fundamental change.